Plants & Photosynthesis

5. Anything that has mass and takes up space, like carbon or oxygen molecules.
7. The tiny green structure inside a plant cell where food is made.
10. The gas plants release into the air as a byproduct that allows us to breathe.
13. Plant tubes that carry water and nutrients up from the roots.
17. Any substance like nitrogen or phosphorus that an organism needs to grow and stay healthy.
18. A diagram showing how energy and matter pass from one living thing to another.
20. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
22. Plant sweat; water moving through a plant and evaporating out of the leaves.
24. An organism that makes its own food; also called a producer.

1. The gas plants absorb from the air to use as a building block for food.
2. The broad category of energy molecules that sugars and starches belong to.
3. The process plants use to turn sunlight, water, and air into food.
4. Plant tubes that carry food down and around from the leaves.
6. The specific simple sugar made by plants to store energy.
8. An element plants get by splitting water molecules to help build sugars.
9. A method of growing plants in a nutrient-rich water solution instead of soil.
11. The flat green plant parts where photosynthesis mainly happens.
12. The process where liquid water heats up and turns into a gas.
14. The science or practice of farming crops and raising livestock.
15. Microscopic mouth-like pores on leaves that let gases in and out.
16. A method of growing plants suspended in the air with misted roots instead of soil.
19. An organism that must eat other living things for energy; a consumer.
21. The main trunk of a plant that provides support and moves water and food.
23. Underground plant parts that absorb water and anchor the plant.