Flowers and Fruit
Across
- 5. A plant with both staminate and pistillate flowers.
- 8. All of the reproductive parts of an angiosperm taken together are called the _________________.
- 11. Melons and pumpkins are examples of a ________.
- 12. Flowers with stamens, but not pistils.
- 14. Develop from one or several ovary carpels, contain one to many seeds, and the flesh is soft throughout the fruit.
- 15. Collective term for all of the sepals.
- 17. Made up of the stigma, style and ovary.
- 18. One or more floral whorls are absent.
- 20. Pollination within one plant.
- 23. Extends from the ovary.
- 26. A plant with staminate OR pistillate flowers.
- 27. Pease, beans and lentils have fruit that is a _______________.
- 28. When you can’t tell if something is a petal or a sepal, you can call it a __________. Lilies have these!
- 29. Transfer of pollen between plants.
- 31. calyx + corolla
- 33. A small simple dry fruit containing a single seed. A sunflower seed is an example.
Down
- 1. Poppies, iris, and orchids have fruit that is a ______________.
- 2. Flower parts rest on the ________________.
- 3. Flower parts are attached to the________________.
- 4. Collective term for all of the petals.
- 6. Attached to the anther.
- 7. Pollen-bearing structure attached to the filament.
- 9. All floral whorls are present and the flower has both male and female parts.
- 10. Crops like wheat and corn have a fruit that is a _______________.
- 12. Pollen lands here. The tip of the style.
- 13. Citrus fruits are a __________________.
- 16. Develop from carpels that produce only one seed, and the inner layer of the fruit forms a hard, stony pit that is bound tightly to the seed. Peaches, cherries, plums, almonds are examples.
- 19. Plants in the mustard family have this fruit type.
- 21. a dry fruit formed from a single carpel that splits down one side along a seam to release seeds
- 22. Holds the eggs. Part of the pistil.
- 24. Flowers with pistils, but not stames.
- 25. Oak trees have a fruit (acrons) that is a _______.
- 30. An apple is a ________.
- 32. A raspberry is an example of an ________________ fruit.