Primary Science: Life Cycle of Flowering Plants 1 (Plant classification & Germination)

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Across
  1. 2. The process in which a seed grows into a seedling and eventually becomes a young plant.
  2. 4. As a seedling grows, the mass of its seed leaves __________ because it is using up the food stored in them.
  3. 6. The process in which the cells of all living things take in food and oxygen in order to produce the energy they need to stay alive.
  4. 7. Plants absorb water and mineral ___________ through their roots.
  5. 9. The name of the sugar that a leaf makes during photosynthesis.
  6. 12. Once a seedling grows its own leaves, it becomes a ___________ plant.
  7. 15. Once the true leaves emerge from a seedling, the plant can make its own food by ________________.
  8. 18. The part of the seedling that emerges from the seed that grows upwards towards sunlight.
  9. 19. A seed planted in dry soil will not germinate because it lacks __________, one of the conditions for germination.
  10. 21. The absorption of water by the seed causes it to ______________.
Down
  1. 1. Flowering plants reproduce by ____________.
  2. 3. The three conditions for germination are air, moisture and ___________.
  3. 5. Another name for seed leaf.
  4. 8. A flowering plant is also known as an _____________.
  5. 10. Seeds need this gas in order to germinate.
  6. 11. The seed _________ is a layer that covers a seed that protects it.
  7. 13. A seed is eaten by an animal and passed out in its faeces. The seed is not damaged because it is _______________ by the seed coat.
  8. 14. The first part of the seedling to emerge from the seed.
  9. 16. The form in which food is stored in a plant.
  10. 17. The seed _________ is the part of a seed where food is stored for the seed.
  11. 20. At the very start of germination, a seed has to ____________ water.