Plant Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. a green structure of a plant that is attached to the stem and main organs of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
- 4. process of converting light energy to chemical energy
- 5. the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore
- 13. growth in response to light
- 15. succession, the regrowth of a biological community after it was impacted by a disturbance
- 19. pores of the leaf, regulate and maintain homeostasis
- 20. promotes cell division and lateral growth in plants
- 21. transports food down
- 22. contains a seed and can be eaten
- 27. green pigment found in plants
- 28. vascular, plants that do not have a system for transporting minerals and nutrients
- 29. growth response to the
- 32. part of the plant that blossoms
- 33. seed producing plants
- 34. plants that can conduct minerals and nutrients to all parts
- 36. leaves are intact on the tree for the entire year
- 37. a underdeveloped plant embryo in a protective outer layer
- 38. promotes growth on shaded side
- 39. sweet and fleshy product of a plant
- 41. the part of the plant which attaches it underground it receives water for plant
Down
- 2. that directs shoots upwards and roots downward
- 3. the part of the plant that is present above the ground and transports minerals and nutrients
- 6. succession, when a biological community develops when no life existed previously
- 7. the part of the pistil where the pollen germinates
- 8. a tree shedding its leaves annually
- 9. a stiff sharp pointed projection on a plant for protection
- 10. a reproductive cell capable of developing into a new individual without fusion
- 11. non vascular plant that grows in dense green clumps in damp and shady locations
- 12. brightly colored structures around a flower to attract pollinators
- 14. flowering plants
- 16. seed, plants that don’t make seeds
- 17. the thin stalk that supports the anther in the male portion of the flower
- 18. the collective term for female reproductive organs of a flower
- 20. waxy covering of a plant
- 23. turning or bending of a plant in response to a touch stimulus
- 24. the tube structure that connects the stigma and ovary in a female flower
- 25. transports water up
- 26. part of the stamen that collects the pollen
- 30. collective male term for reproductive organs of a flower
- 31. substance produced by flowers to reproduce and is transported by animals or wind
- 35. respiration, chemical reactions that break down glucose to make ATP
- 40. evergreen trees that bear cones