The Body

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum (plural) (4)
  2. 3. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  3. 6. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium (plural) (4)
  4. 7. The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body (9)
  5. 10. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  6. 11. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  7. 12. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  8. 14. The externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding (5)
  9. 15. The extremity of the superior limb (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 2. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch (4)
  2. 4. A general conscious awareness (plural) (6)
  3. 5. Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of (5)
  4. 8. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  5. 9. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract (4)
  6. 13. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)