Photosynthesis

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  2. 8. Synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water (14)
  3. 10. A chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical ___ (8)
  4. 12. A process in which one or more substances are changed into others (8)
  5. 13. A surface on which an organism grows or is attached (9)
  6. 15. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  7. 16. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)

Down

  1. 1. Depending on free oxygen or air (7)
  2. 3. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  3. 4. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (12)
  4. 5. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  5. 6. Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific (6)
  6. 7. Living or active in the absence of free oxygen (9)
  7. 9. Commodities offered for sale (7)
  8. 11. A substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected (8)
  9. 14. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue (3)