Healthy Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction (4)
  2. 3. The rate at which the heart beats (5)
  3. 5. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (6)
  4. 8. Physical activity that keeps you fit (8)
  5. 9. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  6. 10. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  7. 11. In good shape and not sick (7)
  8. 13. Movement through a ___ (11)
  9. 15. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  10. 16. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 2. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour (6)
  2. 4. The hard structure that provides a frame for the body of an animal (8)
  3. 6. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  4. 7. Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous (9)
  5. 12. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)
  6. 14. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (4)