Observing God's World (1.5 - 1.8 Review)

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Across
  1. 2. The green plants that have no true leaves, stems, or roots
  2. 5. Growth in tree takes place in the _____ layer immediately under the bark.
  3. 7. A tall plant with a single woody stem
  4. 8. smooth white papery bark- Indians made wigwams and canoes from the bark
  5. 12. The largest algae, often growing to 200ft
  6. 14. The smallest of all green plants
  7. 15. The part of large algae that takes the place of roots and anchors it to the ocean floor
  8. 16. The tallest kind of tree
  9. 19. The age of a tree can be determined by counting its _____.
  10. 22. especially thick wide-spreading branches - acorns
  11. 25. cones fall apart on the tree - needles usually blunt and soft- cones stick straight up from branches -
  12. 27. The plant with a fruiting body
  13. 28. A fungus and an algae working together as one plant
  14. 29. Good shade trees with especially colorful fall leaves - good source of sugar and syrup
  15. 30. Fungi that feed on dead matter
  16. 32. The only conifers with bundles of needles
  17. 33. the trees of one variety are the oldest living things - needles grow in bundles
  18. 35. grows best near water - long, thin leaves and drooping branches give a mournful appearance to many varieties - poplars belong to this group
  19. 36. The roots of ferns are called
  20. 38. Removing a ring of bark from a tree trunk
  21. 39. created to live without chlorophyll.
Down
  1. 1. Scientists who study trees
  2. 3. The fungus that converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide
  3. 4. Grows in the hot, dry climate of the southwestern states
  4. 6. The largest kind of tree
  5. 9. grows in swamps and lagoons of the South - root knees stick out of the water
  6. 10. has an attractive reddish wood with an oil that produces a pleasant fragrance.
  7. 11. evergreen but not conifer - monocot - leaves are called fronds
  8. 13. Single cells that some plants produce instead of seeds
  9. 17. An attractive tree with frosty needles, often planted as an ornamental.
  10. 18. Fungi that feed on living matter
  11. 20. North American trees of this name are members of the cypress family - reddish wood contains a fragrant, moth-repellant oil
  12. 21. trees that bear cones instead of flowers
  13. 23. chief American source for tannin - cones hang down from the tips of the branches
  14. 24. A plant that does not die after one season of growth but continues to grow and live for many seasons
  15. 26. The largest of all trees
  16. 31. A plant that lives for two years and then dies
  17. 34. A plant that has fronds and produces spores instead of seeds
  18. 37. Trees that lose their leaves in the fall