Plant Classification Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Another word for non-flowering, seeded, vascular plants.
  2. 5. In these kinds of plants each of the cells has to absorb water directly from its surroundings.
  3. 9. The name of the tough material that makes up plant cell walls.
  4. 10. Plants have evolved to have a waxy _______ on their leaves that slows water loss from the plant.
  5. 11. Thread-like structures that anchor nonvascular plants to the ground.
Down
  1. 1. The green pigment that gives plants their color and allows them to absorb sunlight.
  2. 2. Nonvascular plants and seedless vascular plants reproduce by __________.
  3. 4. Most plant species that exist today are vascular, seeded, ______ plants.
  4. 6. Mosses and liverworts are called ______ species because they are the first to grow in disturbed environments.
  5. 7. ________plants have tube-like structures that allow water and minerals to move through the plant.
  6. 8. Examples of seedless vascular plants are club mosses, horsetails and _______.