Nutritution for the Heart

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries (5)
  2. 5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light (7)
  3. 7. A disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea (11)
  4. 10. The property of excessive fatness (10)
  5. 13. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (7)
  6. 14. The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body (9)
  7. 15. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)
  8. 16. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color (10)
  2. 2. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  3. 3. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  4. 6. An animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver (11)
  5. 8. The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals (10)
  6. 9. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (7)
  7. 11. The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity (6)
  8. 12. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)