With Conceptual and AP Physics crosswords covered, I moved on to Chemistry. Physics vocabulary is fairly pedestrian. We do our intimidation in the form of mathematics. Chemistry vocabulary wanders deeper into the esoteric: stoichiometry right off the bat. Pnictogen? Chemistry's got some words.
Now that Chemistry's covered, it was time to move on to Biology. Intro Biology has very little math, so it brings the words. So many words that live their best lives within the confines of the study of life sciences. Endoplasmic reticulum arrives early and it's got plenty of friends.
Like the Chemistry puzzles, the Biology puzzles are aligned with an OpenStax online textbook. I chose
Concepts of Biology this time. While nature may abhor a vacuum, I abhor crossword puzzles with yawning gaps and empty spaces. This time, some gaps were filled with terms from "
100 Words Middle School Students Should Know" from vocabulary.com. Others were filled with terms from science, mathematics, geography, pop culture, and randomness. Students will be amused and surprised to see some of the terms that show up in these puzzles.
Word Count: 108 · Puzzle Score (word crosses): 170
Core terms: Applied, Atom, Based, Basic, Biology, Biosphere, Cell, Community, Control, Deductive, Descriptive, Ecosystem, Eukaryote, Evolution, Falsifiable, Homeostasis, Hypothesis, Inductive, Law, Life, Macromolecule, Method, Molecule, Natural, Organ, Organelle, Organism, Peer, Phylogenetic, Physical, Population, Prokaryote, Science, System, Theory, Tissue, Variable
Selected additional terms: Acronyms, Adversary, AI, Air, Amber, Animal, Cheetah, Civic, Contortion, Cpu, Density, Divide, Earth, Elephant, Emu, Exodus, Eye, Gem, Hasten, Jupiter, Jut, Leopard, Lion, Mercury, Meter, Muscle, Navel, Neon, Neptune, Onion, Orion, Paris, Physics, Pluto, Quotient, Recluse, Slope, Twitch, Typhoons, URL, USB, xy
I posted this one online so you can see how the online version plays. Here's the link:
Words: 107 · Puzzle Score: 172
Core terms: Acid, Adhesion, Amino, Anion, Atomic, Base, Buffer, Carbohydrate, Cation, Cellulose, Chemical, Chitin, Cohesion, Covalent, Denaturation, DNA, Electron, Element, Enzyme, Evaporation, Fat, Glycogen, Hormone, Hydrogen, Philic, Phobic, Ion, Ionic, Isotope, Lipids, Litmus, Mass, Matter, Mono, Neutron, Nonpolar, Nucleic, Nucleotide, Nucleus, Octet, Oil, Periodic, pH, Phospholipid, Polar, Polypeptide, Poly, Protein, Proton, Radioactive, Ribonucleic, Saturated, Solvent, Starch, Steroid, Surface, Trans, Transfer, Triglyceride, Unsaturated, Vanderwaals
Selected additional terms: Acre, Add, Apollo, Colon, Colors, Dental, Eggs, Equal, Excel, Fang, Fermium, Format, Half, Inuit, Laser, Neptune, Oxygen, Pi, Solve, Svalbard, Te, Tiger, USB, Venus
Words: 105 · Puzzle Score: 183
Core terms: Active, Cell, Central, Chloroplast, Chromatin, Chromosome, Cilium, Cytoplasm, Cytoskeleton, Cytosol, Desmosome, Diffusion, Endo(cytosis), Envelope, Eu(karyotic), Exo(cytosis), Facilitated, Flagellum, Fluid, Gap, Golgi, Gradient, Hyper(tonic), Hypo(tonic), Isotonic, Junction, Lysosome, Matrix, Microscope, Mitochondria, Nucleolus, Nucleus, Organelle, Osmolarity, Osmosis, Passive, Permeable, Peroxisome, Phago(cytosis), Pino(cytosis), Plasma, Plasmodesma, Pro(karyotic), Receptor, Reticulum, Ribosome, Rough, Smooth, Solute, Tonicity, Unified, Vacuole, Vesicle
Selected additional terms: Amazon, Amoeba, BMI, Boil, Bruin, Camel, Climate, cos, Curie, Cyclops, Debris, Earth, EPA, FDA, Herd, Hot, HTTP, Hypo, Idol, Igloo, Indium, Ion, Italy, Koala, Meander, Mitten, Nose, Omega, Proton, Random, Record, Sierra, Sodium, Venus, Waver, Year
Words: 115 · Puzzle Score: 201(!)
Core terms: Acetyl, Activation, Active, Allosteric, Anabolic, Anaerobic, ATP, Bioenergetics, Catabolic, Chemiosmosis, Citric, Competitive, Endergonic, Enzyme, Exergonic, Feedback, Fermentation, Glycolysis, Heat, Kinetic, Metabolism, Noncompetitive, Oxidative, Potential, Substrate, Synthase, Thermodynamics, Transport
Selected additional terms: AC, Adverb, Au, Average, Barricade, Basalt, Biosphere, CAD, Casa, CCL, Co, Commotion, cos, DC, Deft, Dismal, DNA, Electrochemical, Elephant, Exhilarate, Habitation, Homeostasis, HTTP, Human, Hybrid, Iambic, Ignite, Jabber, Jupiter, Karyote, KE, LAN, Lung, Mitochondria, mL, Neptune, Oslo, Ounce, Parrot, Peru, Pico, Plane, Rust, Stamina, Subside, Venus, Waft, Worm
Words: 111 · Puzzle Score: 183
Core terms: Absorption, Autotroph, Calvin, Chlorophyll, ChlorophyllA, ChlorophyllB, Chloroplast, Fixation, Granum, Heterotroph, Light, Mesophyll, Photoautotroph, Photon, Photosystem, Pigment, Spectrum, Stoma, Stroma, Thylakoid, Wavelength
Selected additional terms: America, Apollo, Atom, ATP, Biology, Bluff, Boron, CME, Crick, Deoxyribonucleic, Ear, Earth, Eavesdrop, Ecosystem, Egregious, Electron, Evolution, Eye, Generative, Glycogen, GPU, Heat, HTML, HTTP, Illuminate, Jargon, Jostle, Mercury, Meticulous, Mitochondria, Model, NIH, RCS, Reticulum, Robot, Roots, Ruby, Saturn, Swagger, Swift, Tango, Tar, Tea, TikTok, Time, Tip, Tom, Tongue, Uncanny, Uncertain, Urdu, Zeal
Crosswords 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, bundled and discounted.
Words: 103 · Puzzle Score: 167
Core terms: Anaphase, Centriole, Checkpoints, Cleavage, Cycle, Cytokinesis, Diploid, Fission, Ftsz, Gamete, Gene, Genome, Haploid, Homologous, Interphase, Kinetochore, Locus, Metaphase, Mitosis, Oncogene, Origin, Phase, Plate, Prometaphase, Prophase, Proto, Quiescent, Septum, Spindle, Telophase, Tumor
Selected additional terms: Asteroid, Cell, Chlorophyll, Comet, CPR, Days, DNA, Ecosystem, Electron, Element, Ember, Emperor, Enigma, Enzyme, Eukaryotic, Eye, Foresight, GPT, Greek, Homeostasis, Horse, Hours, Kindle, Llm, Luna, Monotonous, Organism, Origin, Phase, Prokaryotic, School, Sketch, Sol, Speed, Spore, SSD, Steroid, STEVE, Taste, Temperature, Theorem, Venus, Weather, Woman
Words: 109 · Puzzle Score: 177
Core terms: Alternation, Aneuploid, Autosome, Chiasmata, Chromosome, Crossing, Cycle, Diploid, Dominant, Euploid, Fertilization, Gametophyte, Germ, Inactivation, Interkinesis, Karyogram, Karyotype, Meiosis, Monosomy, Nondisjunction, Polyploid, Recombinant, Reduction, Somatic, Sporophyte, Synapsis, Tetrad, Translocation, Trisomy
Selected additional terms: Air, Amino, amu, Aptitude, Egg, Evolution, Fragrance, Gusto, Jaguar, Mars, Mercury, Mist, Muster, Na, Neptune, Organelle, Outlandish, Protein, Scholar, Sierra, Sodium, Spectrum, Spindle, Teton, Theory, Tigris, Trojan, Uranus, Wheat
Words: 108 · Puzzle Score: 182
Core terms: Allele, Assortment, Codominance, Continuous, Dihybrid, Discontinuous, Dominance, Dominant, Epistasis, First , Genotype, Hemizygous, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Hybridization, Incomplete, Linkage, Model, Monohybrid, Parental, Phenotype, Punnett, Recessive, Reciprocal, Recombination, Second, Segregation, Test, Trait, Wild, Xlinked
Selected additional terms: Amazon, Atom, Bacteria, Biologist, Brackish, Calf, Ceramic, Chlorophyll, Chromosome, Cme, Cobra, Curie, Earth, Electron, Eye, Fixation, Havoc, Ice, Impending, Inert, Ions, Iris, JPEG, Lipid, March, MPEG, mRNA, Omega, Persistent, Python, Reduction, Reticulum, Rh, Sars, Saturn, Scurry, SEO, SPF, Stoma, tan, Telophase, Unit
Crosswords 6, 7, and 8, bundled and discounted.
Words: 108 · Puzzle Score: 172
Core terms: Alternative, Bubble, Codon, Deoxyribose, Epigenetic, Excision, Exon, Fork, Gene, Genetic, Helicase, Helix, Intron, Lagging, Leading, Ligase, Mismatch, mRNA, Mutation, Nitrogenous, Nontemplate, Okazaki, Phosphate, Polymerase, Primer, Promoter, RNA, rRNA, Semiconservative, Splicing, Start, Stop, Telomerase, Telomere, Template, Transcriptional, Translational, tRNA
Selected additional terms: Acid, ACL, Algebra, Ash, Atom, Aviary, Brain, Brandish, Chlorophyll, cos, Enzyme, Equinox, Googol, Imperious, Ionic, Karyogram, Knoll, LLM, Mendeleev, Mitochondria, Neptune, Osmosis, Recuperate, Skeptic, Somber, Steroid, Tenth, Tesla, Tumor
Words: 104 · Puzzle Score: 168
Core terms: Anneal, Biomarker, Biotechnology, Chain, Cloning, Electrophoresis, Engineering, Genomics, Map, Metagenomics, Modified, Organism, Pharmaco(genomics), Physical, Plasmid, Protein, Proteomics, Recombinant, Reproductive, Restriction, Reverse, Signature, Testing, Therapy, Transgenic, Whole
Selected additional terms: Allele, amu, Anabolic, Au, Catabolic, Cell, Celsius, CFC, Eagle, Ecosystem, Equal, Equator, Eukaryotic, Eureka, Eye, Fang, Grueling, Hot, Hz, Ion, Jupiter, Lava, League, Length, Malleable, Mercury, Misgiving, Narwhal, Orca, Owl, Palm, Physics, Polaris, Quell, RSS, Saturn, Seashell, Skunk, Slope, Solute, Swarm, Tactic, Vulnerable, WIMP
Crosswords 9 and 10, bundled and discounted.
Words: 121 · Puzzle Score: 188
Core terms: Acquired, Adaptation, Adaptive, Allopatric, Analogous, Bottleneck, Convergent, Dispersal, Divergent, Drift, Founder, Gene, Genetics, Homologous, Macroevolution, Microevolution, Migration, Natural, Pool, Speciation, Sympatric, Synthesis, Variation, Vestigial, Vicariance
Selected additional terms: AI, Arid, Atom, Biosphere, Cation, Cell, Chess, Chlorophyll, Cunning, Darwin, dB, Destination, Disdain, DNA, Energy, Engine, Graph, Iris, Luminous, Materialize, Momentum, Mrna, Multitude, Nucleus, Organelle, Osmosis, Pi, Planet, Plasmid, PPM, Proton, STM, Terse, Theta, Tsunami, Uranus, Venus, Volumes, Waver, Zeroth
Words: 120 · Puzzle Score: 191
Core terms: Analogous, Ancestral, Binomial, Branch, Clade, Cladistics, Class, Derived , Domain, Family, Genus, Kingdom, Monophyletic, Order, Parsimony, Phylogenetic, Phylogeny, Phylum, Rooted, Sister, Species, Systematics, Taxon, Taxonomy
Selected additional terms: Amu, Aplomb, Banish, Chem, Chlorofluorocarbons, Chromosome, Dna, Earth, Endocytosis, Engross, Epistasis, Error, Furtive, Intron, Ion, Isotope, Magma, Mitochondria, Museum, Nonagon, Olympic, Opal, Osiris, Physical, Polk, Potential, Precipice, Pristine, Quart, Restitution, Sabotage, Skin, Speciation, Stem, Thermodynamics, Thyme, Translucent, Usb, Venus, Vim
Words: 113 · Puzzle Score: 187
Core terms: Amoebozoa, Anaerobic, Anoxic, Ascomy, Basidiomy, Biofilm, Black, Botulism, Capsule, Chytridiomy, Commensalism, Conjugation, Cyanobacteria, Disease, Endosymbiosis, Epidemic, Excavata, Extremophile, Glomeromy, Hypha, Lichen, Microbial, Mold, Mrsa, Mycelium, Mycorrhiza, Mycosis, Negative, Opisthokonta, Pandemic, Parasite, Pathogen, Pellicle, Peptidoglycan, Phototroph, Plastid, Positive, Rhizaria, Saprobe, Septum, Stromatolite, Thallus, Transduction, Vent, Yeast, Zygomy
Selected additional terms: Ally, Anneal, AU, Avocado, Cone, Eukaryote, Glycogen, Hour, Inch, Ion, Lab, Logic, Metal, MIDI, Neuter, Oil, Ovum, Patella, Photon, Sol, Thorium, Tongue, Top, Triangle, Yukon
Words: 118 · Puzzle Score: 189
Core terms: Anther, Anthophyta, Apical, Basal, Calyx, Carpel, Club, Cone, Conifer, Corolla, Cotyledon, Cycad, Dicot, Diplontic, Eudicots, Fern, Filament, Gametangium, Gameto(phyte), Gingko(phyte), Gneto(phyte), Gymnosperm, Gynoecium, (Haplo)diplontic, (Haplo)ntic, Herbaceous, Hetero(sporous), Homo(sporous), Hornwort, Horsetail, Liverwort, Mega(sporocyte), Micro(sporocyte), Monocot, Moss, Nonvascular, Ovary, Petal, Phloem, Pistil, Sepal, (Spor)angium, (Spor)ophyll, (Spor)ophyte, Stamen, Stigma, Strobili, Style, Syngamy, Vascular, Whisk, Xylem
Selected additional terms: Acid, Alaska, Biotechnology, Cell, cos, Cytoplasm, DNA, Galileo, Gamete, Gel, Gene, Golgi, Instagram, Iron, Isotope, Jupiter, Leeuwenhoek, LIGO, Mendeleev, Metabolism, Microbial, Mycelium, Nonvascular, Organelle, Proton, Species, Tera, Tesla, Titan, Uranus, Wild
Words: 115 · Puzzle Score: 199
Core terms: Actinopterygii, Amniote, Ampulla, Anthropoids, Anura, Apoda, Asymmetrical, Body, Brachiation, Budding, Cephalothorax, Chaeta, Chitin, Coelom, Column, Deuterostome, Down, Eucoelomate, Extracellular, Fragmentation, Frog, Gastrodermis, Gemmule, Germ, Gnathostome, Hagfish, Intracellular, Lamprey, Lateral, Madreporite, Mammal, Mantle, Medusa, Myxini, Nacre, Nerve, Osteichthyes, Ostracoderm, Polyp, Radial, Radula, Sarcopterygii, Sphenodontia, Stereoscopic, Sudoriferous, Swim, Tail, Triploblast
Selected additional terms: Ancestry, Anthill, ASL, Burr, Cell, Eiffel, Ferdinand, Growing, LEO, Lion, Micro, North, Oahu, Octopus, Ohm, Pico, Prof, Redplanet, Solid, System, Taylor, Teen, Teeth, Ulna
Words: 105 · Puzzle Score: 184
Core terms: Acoelomate, Amoebocyte, Amphibia, Annelida, Bilateral, Caecilian, Chelicerae, Choanocyte, Chordata, Clitellum, Cnidaria, Cnidocyte, Complete, Craniate, Ctenidia, Cutaneous, Dioecious, Diphyodont, Diploblast, Epidermis, Eutherian, Hemocoel, Heterodont, Lancelet, Marsupial, Mesoglea, Mesohyl, Metamerism, Mollusca, Monoecious, Monotreme, Nematocyst, Nematoda, Notochord, Osculum, Pneumatic, Porifera, Prosimians, Protostome, Sebaceous, Spicule, Spongocoel, Squamata, Tadpole, Testudines, Trachea, Tunicate, Urochordata, Urodela
Selected additional terms: Adieu, Bogus, CNC, Dicot, Ebola, Echo, Erie, Euro, Eye, HIPAA, Hour, Lisbon, London, Nimby, Odd, OH, Orbit, Oslo, Petal, Pluto, Rodin, Rome, SARS, Saturn, Storm, Stroke, TNT, Twain, Utah, Venus
Crosswords 11, 12, 13, 14, 15a, and 15b, bundled and discounted.
Words: 113 · Puzzle Score: 193
Core terms: Action, Alveolus, Amylase, Aorta, Artery, Autonomic, Axon, Bile, Bolus, Bronchi, Capillary, Cardiac, Central, Cerebral, Chyme, Cleft, Corpus, Diastole, Ectotherm, Endocrine, Esophagus, Excitation, Fibrous, Gallbladder, Glia, Hormone, Joint, Large, Limbic, Membrane, Mineral, Myofibril, Nasal, Neuron, Open, Ossicles , Pancreas, Parathyroid, Pectoral, Pepsin, Peristalsis, Pituitary, Pulmonary, Renal, Salivary, Sarcomere, Skull, Smooth, Spinal, Superior, Synapse, Systemic, Temporal, Thoracic, Thyroid, Trachea, Up, Urethra, Ventricle, Vitamin
Selected additional terms: Bohrium, Caffeine, Cell, CO, Cold, Condor, Ear, GUI, Huron, Ion, Mars, Mercury, Month, MRI, Nacho, NIST, Pulse, Ratio, Real, SST, Steps, Taylor, Ten, Tesla, Venus, Who
Words: 107 · Puzzle Score: 160
Core terms: Adrenal, Amygdala, Anus, Appendicular, Atrium, Axial, Bicuspid, Bladder, Brainstem, Bronchiole, Cardiac, Cerebellum, Cerebrospinal, Circulatory, Colon, Dendrite, Diaphragm, Down, Endotherm, Essential, Exocrine, Frontal, Ganglia, Hippo(campus), Hyoid, Inferior, Kidney, Larynx, Liver, Myelin, Myofilament, Nephron, Occipital, Oral, Osmotic, Pancreas, Parietal, Pelvic, Peripheral, Pharynx, Primary, Rectum, Renal, Sarcolemma, Set, Small, Somatic, Stomach, Sympathetic, Synovial, Systole, Thalamus, Thymus, Tissue, Tricuspid, Ureter, Vein, Vertebral
Selected additional terms: Acid, Amino, ANS, Azores, Base, Curie, Ear, Earth, Egg, Genome, Leg, Lung, Month, Moon, Nose, Organ, TBI, Theory, Triton
Words: 101 · Puzzle Score: 186
Core terms: Acellular, Active, Adaptive, Allergy, Antibody, Antigen, Presenting, Apoptosis, Attenuation, Autoantibody, Autoimmunity, Bcell, Capsid, Complement, Cytokine, Cytopathic, Cytotoxic, Dendritic, Effector, Glycoprotein, Helper, Histocompatibility, Humoral, Hyper, Immune, Immuno(Deficiency), Inflammation, Innate, Interferon, Lymph, Lymphocyte, Macrophage, Mast, Mediated, Memory, Monocyte, Natural, Neutrophil, Passive, Primary, Secondary, Tcell, Vaccine, Viral, Virion, White
Selected additional terms: Amino, ATP, Cyan, Delta, Doppler, Dune, Emerge, Estate, Exasperation, Futile, Hanoi, HIV, Honey, Meander, NASA, Neon, Plus, POV, Presenting, Recycle, Repugnant, Seoul, Sound, Tesla, Tiara, Tide, Trachea, Trait, Unit, VanGogh
Words: 110 · Puzzle Score: 183
Core terms: Asexual, Blastocyst, Budding, Bulbourethral, Clitoris, Corpus, Determination, Estrogen, External, Fission, Fragmentation, Fsh, Gastrulation, Gestation, Gestation, GnRH, Gonadotropin, Hermaphroditism, Inhibin, Internal, Leydig, Luteinizing, Majora, Mass, Menstrual, Minora, Oogenesis, Organo(genesis), Ovarian, Oviduct, Oviparity, Ovoviparity, Ovulation, Partheno(genesis), Penis, Placenta, Progesterone, Prostate, Scrotum, Semen, Seminal, Seminiferous, Sertoli, Sexual, Spermato(genesis), Testes, Testosterone, Trophoblast, Uterus, Vagina, Viviparity, Zona
Selected additional terms: Acid, ATP, Bacon, Beta, Capillary, Circle, DNA, Drift, Elicit, Error, Frog, GFI, ICU, Kinematics, Mast, Metric, Moon, NIH, Pangea, Peak, RAM, Sarong, STI, Trait, Vein, Webb, Zenith
Crosswords 16a, 16b, 17, and 18, bundled and discounted.
Words: 116 · Puzzle Score: 192
Core terms: Abundance, Biogeography, Birth, Carrying, China, Climax, Death, Demography, Density, Dependent, Disturbance, Exclusion, Exponential, Exponential, Foundation, Host, Independent, Intraspecific, Keystone, Life, Logistic, Logistic, Mark, Mimicry, Mortality, Mutualism, Parasite, Pioneer, Primary, Quadrat, Richness, Secondary, Selected, Size, Species, Stable, Structure, Survivorship, Zero
Selected additional terms: Agua, Air, Anthropoids, Apprehensive, Atom, Berlin, Bismarck, Brainstem, Bug, Canary, Cat, CME, CPR, Debris, Dirt, DNA, Ear, Ebony, Echo, EKG, Fern, Gel, Headway, ICE, Inert, Mandela, Neptune, Nurse, Parthenogenesis, Photoautotroph, Phylum, PPE, Proton, PSI, Quad, Reaper, Replenish, Rouge, Rust, Scarcity, Titan, Uranium, Yeast
Words: 104 · Puzzle Score: 185
Core terms: Abyssal, Acid, Algal, Apex, Aphotic, Arctic, Autotroph, Benthic, (Bio)Geochemical, (Bio)Magnification, Biome, Boreal, Canopy, Chain, Channel, Chaparral, Chemo(Autotroph), Coral, Cryptofauna, Dead, Detrital, Ecosystem, Emergent, Equilibrium, Estuary, Eutrophication, Fallout, Forest, Grassland, Grazing, Gross, Hydrosphere, Intertidal, Neritic, Net, Oceanic, Pelagic, Permafrost, Photic, Photo(Autotroph), Plankti(Vore), Primary, Producer, Renewable, Resilience, Resistance, Savanna, Secondary, Services, Source, Subduction, Subtropical, Tertiary, Trophic, Tropical, Web, Wetland
Selected additional terms: ADA, ASL cos, Erupt, Gene, Istanbul, Kelvin, kph, Lab, Library, Morpheus, Noon, Nuclear, Octopi, Ratio, Spork, Synapse, Tera, Thorax, Watt, Zygote
Words: 108 · Puzzle Score: 175
Core terms: Biodiversity, Bush, Chemical, Chytridiomycosis, Ecosystem, Endemic, Exotic, Extinction, Genetic, Heterogeneity, Hotspot, Rate, Secondary, Syndrome, Tragedy
Selected additional terms: Algal, Antigen, Apex, Atom, Biology, Biome, Birth, Chain, Clade, Column, Death, Delta, Density, Deoxyribonucleic, Earth, Eon, Erie, Eutrophication, Exponential, Extinction, Food, Host, Isotope, Isthmus, Jupiter, Life, Math, Matter, Mortality, Muscle, Obscure, Organ, Permafrost, Photic, Pioneer, Planktivore, Renewable, Reproduce, Resilience, Resistance, Reticulum, Rhodium, Saturn, Source, Species, Stag, Stroma, Sub, Taxonomy, Technetium, Temperature, Trophic, Zero
Crosswords 19, 20, and 21, bundled and discounted.
23 crossword puzzles
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