Water Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. ___________ cooling is the process by which an organism is cooled due to evaporation of water on their skin
- 3. Weak attractive forces between the slightly negative pole of one molecule and the slightly positive pole of another molecule
- 5. A single functional unit of the vertebrate kidney
- 6. Reclamation of valuable substances from the filtrate in the nephron tube
- 7. Water is said to have a high ________ ____ because it exhibits a relatively small temperature change for any given input of energy
- 9. Blood pressure forces fluid out of the __________ and into the Bowman’s capsule
- 10. The _____ artery supplies blood to the kidney
- 11. The passive diffusion of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane
- 12. The ______’s capsule receives filtrate from the blood in the nephron
- 13. The spontaneous movement of a substance down its concentration gradient
Down
- 1. A physical property of solutions that determines the direction of osmosis. It depends on solute concentration and applied pressure
- 4. Water is said to be a universal _______ because it is able to dissolve a large number of substances
- 7. Active transport of wastes into the nephron tube for excretion
- 8. A type of protein embedded in the plasma membrane that facilitates osmosis