2.3-2.4 Life Science Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. scientific term for flowering plant
  2. 6. members of this family have a pleasant odor
  3. 7. legume plants help to restore ____to the soil
  4. 9. flowers that surround the center of a composite flower
  5. 10. food making process of plants
  6. 14. in the final stage of germination includes the emergence of the ______above the surface of the ground and the growth of a radical into a root system
  7. 15. ____have classified flowering plants into families according to the structure of their flowers and fruits
  8. 16. “put together”
  9. 17. what the members of the pea family are also called
  10. 19. members of this family have 5 rounded petals that form a cup-shaped blossom
  11. 21. begin growing
  12. 23. members of this family have large seedpods that split open, releasing seeds attached to strands of silky floss into the windy air
  13. 24. apple, cherry, apricot, blackberry, and raspberry are in this family
Down
  1. 1. form the head’s center of a composite flower
  2. 2. plant that develops from a seed, produces new seeds, and dies in a single growing season
  3. 3. plants that live from year to year and bloom each growing season
  4. 4. one thing a seed requires in order to begin growing
  5. 5. in the first stage of germination, the seed begins to swell by absorbing ______
  6. 8. non flowering seed plants
  7. 11. members of this family contain some of the most fragrant wildflowers
  8. 12. non woody
  9. 13. members of this family have clusters of small flowers arranged in umbels
  10. 18. when the plant no longer depends on cotyledons it is a ____and germination has ended
  11. 20. plants that live through two growing seasons to complete their life cycles
  12. 22. in the second stage of germination, the embryo grows a _____that pushes its way through the softened seed coat and into the ground