Across
- 2. scientific term for flowering plant
- 6. members of this family have a pleasant odor
- 7. legume plants help to restore ____to the soil
- 9. flowers that surround the center of a composite flower
- 10. food making process of plants
- 14. in the final stage of germination includes the emergence of the ______above the surface of the ground and the growth of a radical into a root system
- 15. ____have classified flowering plants into families according to the structure of their flowers and fruits
- 16. “put together”
- 17. what the members of the pea family are also called
- 19. members of this family have 5 rounded petals that form a cup-shaped blossom
- 21. begin growing
- 23. members of this family have large seedpods that split open, releasing seeds attached to strands of silky floss into the windy air
- 24. apple, cherry, apricot, blackberry, and raspberry are in this family
Down
- 1. form the head’s center of a composite flower
- 2. plant that develops from a seed, produces new seeds, and dies in a single growing season
- 3. plants that live from year to year and bloom each growing season
- 4. one thing a seed requires in order to begin growing
- 5. in the first stage of germination, the seed begins to swell by absorbing ______
- 8. non flowering seed plants
- 11. members of this family contain some of the most fragrant wildflowers
- 12. non woody
- 13. members of this family have clusters of small flowers arranged in umbels
- 18. when the plant no longer depends on cotyledons it is a ____and germination has ended
- 20. plants that live through two growing seasons to complete their life cycles
- 22. in the second stage of germination, the embryo grows a _____that pushes its way through the softened seed coat and into the ground