Year 10 - Plant Biology Crossword
Across
- 3. Transports food
- 4. Stick part of flower where pollen lands
- 7. Contains the ovules
- 8. Grows into the stem after germination
- 11. Packing tissue, contains vascular tissue
- 13. The process by which plants make their own food and gain energy
- 15. Evaporation of water out through the aerial surfaces of a plant
- 17. Protective single cell layer
- 18. Strengthening tissue in older plants, strengthened with ligning (wood)
- 20. Small opening in the leaf epidermis to allow gas exchange
- 22. Contains chlorophyll, site of photosynthesis
- 23. Cell that is not swollen with water, but is not dehydrated either
- 24. Eats other organisms to gain energy
- 25. Must make its own source of energy
- 28. Inner boundary of cortex
- 29. Contains the pollen
- 31. Grows into the root after germination
- 33. Part of flower that protects the bud
- 34. Cell that is swollen with water
- 35. Cells that control the opening and closing of the stoma
Down
- 1. Point of seed attachment to ovary
- 2. Protects the seed
- 4. Type of mesophyll that contains large air spaces
- 5. Part of flower designed to attract insects, birds, etc
- 6. Supports the anthers
- 9. Stored energy supply in the seed
- 10. Increases the surface area of the roots to allow greater water uptake
- 12. Strengthening tissue in young plants, strengthened with cellulose
- 14. Transport of substances around the plant
- 16. The process cells use to break down complex molecules into simple molecules in order to harness the energy
- 19. Type of mesophyll that contains the most chlorophyll, long and thing in appearance
- 21. Supports the stigma
- 26. Area of dead cells which protects the growing root
- 27. Embryonic leaf, also energy supply
- 30. A small body produced by a plant which grows into a new plant
- 32. Waxy layer found on some plants