Life Science Ch. 8: Classifying Plants Vocabulary Words

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Across
  1. 3. – the vascular tissue that moves sugars throughout a plant
  2. 8. the group of angiosperms that have vascular bundles in a ring around the outer portion of the stem
  3. 10. – the vascular tissue that moves water and nutrients throughout a plant
  4. 11. ring – the rings in a woody stem that result from different growth rates of xylem at different times of the year
  5. 12. pressure – pressure causes by the presence of water inside a plant cells’ central vacuole that helps support a plant
Down
  1. 1. layer – the loosely packed cells in a plant leaf that allow gases to move easily the palisade layer
  2. 2. cambium – a layer of living cells that produces new cork cells just under the dead cork of a plant’s bark
  3. 4. the group of angiosperms that have vascular bundles evenly distributed throughout their stems
  4. 5. – an opening in the underside of the leaf that allows gases to move into and out of the leaf
  5. 6. – a thick-walled cell that helps support a plant
  6. 7. the vascular tissue of a plant’s leaf
  7. 9. layer the tightly packed cells in a plant leaf that make most of the plant’s food