Healthy Choices, Healthy Communities: The Crossword

3. What your stomach and gut do to break down the food you eat.
5. Something your body does suddenly when pollen gets in your nose.
6. The system in your body that fights off germs and sickness.
8. A topic you might study in school, like Science or History.
11. When two or more groups decide to work together on a plan.
14. To look at two things to see how they are the same or different.
15. The practice of keeping yourself and your surroundings clean to stay healthy.
16. A way to protect yourself; nature acts as this against stress.
17. A word for something that is a basic or very important "must-do" step.
20. The "whys" behind doing something, like why we protect the woods.

1. Sweet, healthy snacks that grow on trees or bushes, like apples or berries.
2. A group of healthy foods that includes beans and peas.
4. How you feel about yourself and your own worth.
6. How something feels when a piece is missing; not finished or whole.
7. A pattern of things you do every day, like brushing your teeth.
9. A word used to describe something that is full all the way to the very top.
10. Young people who are not quite children anymore but not yet teenagers.
12. A way to measure large areas of land, like a big park or a farm.
13. Things you do so often that you don't even have to think about them anymore.
18. areas Places like parks and forest preserves where plants and animals are protected.
19. A picture or chart that uses images to help explain information.