Food and digestion 1

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The food and drink a person usually has (4)
  2. 7. The process of decomposing organic matter by bacteria or by chemical action or heat (9)
  3. 11. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  4. 13. The act of consuming food (7)
  5. 15. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (plural) (8)
  6. 16. Any substance that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis (plural) (9)

Down

  1. 1. To bring into ___ or equilibrium (8)
  2. 2. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (plural) (8)
  3. 3. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  4. 5. Hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas (7)
  5. 6. A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite (8)
  6. 8. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (9)
  7. 9. An illness that harms the body (7)
  8. 10. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  9. 12. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants (6)
  10. 14. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens (6)