This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Ecology & Evolution has 10 clues. Answers range from 7 to 15 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
(father of zoology), classified animals into two main groups: animals with red blood and animals without red blood. Classified plants into three main groups: herbs, shrubs, and trees. (384-322 B.C.)
(father of botany), one of the first writers of plant description, wrote: enquiry into plants, and the causes of plants. Classified plants into four groups: trees, shrubs, subshrubs, and herbs. (370-285 B.C.)
wrote about the medicinal and agricultural groupings of plants. (Natural history)(A.D. 23-79)
physician in the roman army, grouped natural minerals useful in the treatment of disease in his work material medica. (First century A.D.)
a Persian physician wrote a canon of medicine, around A.D. 1000. (980-1037)
(doctrine of signatures), herbalist, wrote books with excellent illustrations, called herbals. (1464-1534)
first scientist of the renaissance to use first hand observations of living plants to write plant descriptions. (1515-1544)
a Swiss botanist, listed all the plants known at the time in Pinax, a plant register. Used a scientific name of two words. (1560-1624)
an English botanist, wrote methodus plantarum nova and historia plantarum. Grouped plants by the ways they looked alike. (1627-1705)
(Father of modern taxonomy), wrote diary describing new plants called flora laponica. Two important works were species plantarum and system naturae with 4,236 kinds of animals. (1707-1778)