Across
- 3. Walls of the guard cells that are thicker.
- 6. Water only passes through the plants and evaporates, these are the ones that remain in plant tissues.
- 8. In starch to malate, this occurs when protons are pumped out of guard cells in response to blue light.
- 10. Found beneath the epidermis and is thick in the topmost part of the midrib.
- 11. Stomatal opening and closing are under this control.
- 13. Blue light helps plants to modify their activities at the ____ and molecular levels.
- 15. Evaporation of water through the stomata or cuticle.
- 16. Transpiration is responsible for the ____ movement of water from roots to leaves.
- 19. Are necessary for guard cells to contain.
- 21. A part of a leaf; this consists of parenchyma cells with large air spaces.
- 24. The most familiar type of leaf which is large, flat and green. A leaf with two main parts, the lamina and the petiole.
- 25. During the day, the concentration of _____ cation in the guard cells gradually decreases.
- 27. Increases the rate of transpiration.
- 29. Are hairs for protection and for reducing transpiration.
- 30. A set of cells, which may be parenchyma, collenchyma or sclerenchyma,that surround vascular bundles.
Down
- 1. Stomata is below the surface of the leaf.
- 2. These are where the water enters which leads to the opening of the stomata.
- 4. Yellow pigment absorbs ____ strongly.
- 5. One of the factors which affect the transpiration rate.
- 7. It is where the petiole joins the lamina to the stem.
- 9. Is used up during photosynthesis.
- 12. Many monocots, ferns, and cycads don't have ____ zone.
- 14. These are epidermal cells that do not have chloroplasts.
- 17. Cells that absorb the most sunlight in leaves that are held horizontally.
- 18. The stomata must remain ____ to let in more carbon dioxide.
- 20. one of the plants that have palisade mesophyll on upper and lower leaf surfaces.
- 22. Guard cells become ____ and move apart when the water enters.
- 23. Usually consists of a single layer of parenchyma cells.
- 26. In sunflower, the ___ has many vascular bundles surrounded by mesophyll.
- 28. Petiole joins the ____ to the stem at a node.
