Chapter 3: Plants

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Across
  1. 2. type of stem that is hard and rigid
  2. 4. anchor plants and absorb water
  3. 6. rootlike structures that anchor nonvascular plants
  4. 10. where pollen is produced
  5. 12. connects the stigma to the ovary
  6. 15. vascular plant that produces flowers
  7. 16. most common type of nonvascular plant
  8. 18. male reproductive part of the flower
  9. 19. type of stem that is soft, like the ones in flowers
  10. 20. leaflike structures that protect the flower bud
  11. 23. hollow structure at the base of the pistil that protects seeds as they develop
  12. 24. sperm cells
  13. 26. tissue found in the stem that produces new xylem and phloem
  14. 27. controls where gases enter and leave a leaf
  15. 28. vascular tissue that moves food through a plant
Down
  1. 1. animals help with this
  2. 3. cone bearing plant
  3. 5. made up of embryo, stored food, seed coat
  4. 7. two cotyledons
  5. 8. when a seed cracks open the seed coat and the embryo pushes out of the seed
  6. 9. vascular tissue that moves water
  7. 11. the process of water evaporating from the leaves
  8. 12. used by seedless vascular plants to reproduce
  9. 13. how seeds get scattered
  10. 14. "naked seed"
  11. 17. site of photosynthesis
  12. 21. young plant that grows from the fertilized egg
  13. 22. protects the root as it grows through the soil
  14. 25. female reproductive part of the flower