Botany Lesson 06

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Across
  1. 2. Banana-shaped cells that expand and shrink to open and close the stoma of a leaf (put a space between the two words)
  2. 4. The tiny pores or "mouths" on a leaf or other green part of a plant that take in gases to help make food for the plant.
  3. 7. The place where a leaf connects to the stem of the plant.
  4. 11. The invisible gas that plants need from the air to make food for themselves. (put a space between the two words)
  5. 12. The outside edge of a leaf.
  6. 14. The green pigment found in all green plants which helps them produce food.
  7. 15. A living thing that eats other living things to survive.
Down
  1. 1. The process by which water is released from plants into the air.
  2. 3. Individual blades on a compound leaf.
  3. 5. The tip of the leaf.
  4. 6. The entire leaf blade.
  5. 7. The process plants use to make food for themselves, using light, water and carbon dioxide.
  6. 8. An invisible gas that plants "exhale" into the air in the process of making food. Humans inhale this gas in order to breathe.
  7. 9. A living thing that makes its own food, and does not need to consume another living thing to survive.
  8. 10. A single leaf attached to a plant (put a space between the two words)
  9. 11. Several leaflets attached to a single petiole, which is attached to a plant (put a space between the two words)
  10. 13. Plants that lose their leaves in the fall and winter.