Plant Growth and Reproduction
Across
- 4. The ___________ of the root is to anchor the plant.
- 5. Tissue that carries water and nutrients from the roots to every part of the plant.
- 6. The __________ let carbon dioxide into leaves and let oxygen excape.
- 10. This part of the flower produces eggs.
- 11. Process by which plants make food.
- 13. After fertilization, the ______ develops into a fruit.
- 14. Male pine cones release millions of ________ grains to be blown by the wind and settle onto ovules to develop seeds.
- 15. Pollen grains need to get to the _______ of the flower in order for pollination to occur.
- 17. A plant that has naked seeds.
- 18. These parts of the flower attract insects for pollination.
- 20. These are clusters found under a fern frond and have springlike devices that toss spores into the air.
- 21. _________ tissue is a material that supports a plant and conducts nutrients.
Down
- 1. Carbon __________ is the product of photosynthesis.
- 2. A flowering plant, which has seeds protected by a fruit.
- 3. These are structures in the embryo that contain food that provides energy until the plant can make its own food.
- 7. ___________ plants are generally larger than nonvascular plants.
- 8. This is a kind of nonvascular plant.
- 9. In nonvascular plants, __________ move from cell to cell.
- 12. In ferns, the __________ are more visible than the gametophytes.
- 16. to sprout.
- 18. Tissue that carries food from a plant's leaves to its cells.
- 19. A single reproductive cell that can grow into a new plant.