Unit 5 Vocab

3. The solid surface of the earth
7. The main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground but occasionally subterranean
8. A compact growth on a plant develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot
9. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
11. A class of things that have common characteristics and that can divided into subordinate kinds
13. are a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture.
14. a plant variety that has been produced in cultivation by selective breeding. Cultivars are usually designated in the style Taxus baccata ‘Variegata’.
15. woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

1. The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food
2. is a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel.
4. The second element in the Latin binomial name of species, which follows the generic name and distinguishes the species from another in the same genus
5. Of, denoting, or relating to herbs (in the botanical sense)
6. (of an area of land) covered with trees
10. The quality or state being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness, or, monotony
12. is a woody plant which is smaller than a tree and has several main stems arising at or near the ground.