environmental science crossword

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Across
  1. 7. evaporation through plants
  2. 9. a pigment that makes the leaves green
  3. 11. they are designed, like scissors, to make a cut
  4. 16. refers to a single layer of cells on the lower surface of the leaf that contains stomata and guard cells
  5. 18. the process that plants use to capture light for energy
  6. 19. type of plant that reproduces from seeds in cones
  7. 20. In plants, it is part of the mesophyll, where it forms a layer next to the palisade cells in the leaf.
Down
  1. 1. orange pigments in leaves
  2. 2. located beneath the upper epidermis
  3. 3. are plant cell organelles that convert light energy into relatively stable chemical energy via the photosynthetic process
  4. 4. reduces the rate of water loss from the leaf surface. Other leaves may have small hairs on the leaf surface
  5. 5. located in the leaf epidermis and pairs surround and form stomatal pores, which regulate CO2 influx from the atmosphere into the leaves for photosynthetic carbon fixation
  6. 6. yellow pigments in leaves
  7. 8. holes underneath the leaves
  8. 10. molecules that absorb color
  9. 12. conifers that have needle-like leaves
  10. 13. red and purple pigments in leaves
  11. 14. This is a single layer of cells containing few or no chloroplasts
  12. 15. allows gaseous exchange between the leaf and the outside atmosphere through the stomata
  13. 17. part of the transport system in vascular plants