Horticulture Key Terms
Across
- 4. - part of plant that acts as a main support system
- 9. - the process of letting oxygen out and bringing carbon dioxide into the plant
- 10. - part of plant that attracts insects for pollination
- 11. - droplets of water on leaf tips and edges of a leaf
- 15. - the process through which plants make food
- 16. - the female reproductive organ of a plant
- 18. - pore on the leaves to allow gases to escape
- 19. - food travels down through this tube
- 21. - the force in which water clings to the sides of the xylem tubes
- 22. - part of plant that carries the seeds and are edible
- 23. - part of plant that can be grown into a new identical plant
- 24. - the reproductive cell division
- 25. - water molecules are attracted to each other like magnets with this force
Down
- 1. - the study of heredity and the ways parent plants pass their valued traits
- 2. - green leaf like parts of the flower that covers and protects the flower bud
- 3. - the tubes in which water goes up from the roots
- 5. - the green coloring in the leaves
- 6. - the liquid that gives the plant cell inside the cell its shape
- 7. - the evaporation of water through a plant’s leaves and stems
- 8. - part of plant that produces all the food
- 12. - organelle in the leaf that pursues photosynthesis
- 13. - plant cell-division
- 14. - the male reproductive organ of a plant
- 17. - reproductive cell
- 20. - part of plant that anchors the plant into the ground