Science Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (12)
  2. 6. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  3. 8. Of or relating to or produced by ___ (9)
  4. 10. A fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion (6)
  5. 11. Pertaining to ___ (11)
  6. 12. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  7. 13. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)

Down

  1. 1. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (6)
  2. 2. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood (plural) (9)
  3. 3. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  4. 4. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (4)
  5. 7. An illness that harms the body (plural) (8)
  6. 9. The rate at which the heart beats (5)