Across
- 3. In plants most of the absorption of water and minerals takes place through this.
- 4. the protective covering over the bud before it blooms.
- 10. They hold the plant in the ground and keep the plant from falling over.
- 11. attract pollinators to the plant.
- 14. The release of water vapor and oxygen in the form of gases through the stomata.
- 16. The largest part of the seed that provides stored energy for the developing seedling is called ___________
- 19. The microscopic openings on leaf cells through which the transpiration takes place is called _________.
- 20. dandelion seeds are dispersed by _______.
- 21. The innermost core consists of dead cells which are added to continually, which is called the ______.
- 22. The outer protective layer of the trunk is made of both living and dead cells and is called the ______.
- 23. The cells that carry water throughout the plant body.
- 24. produces the pollen.
- 26. A plant’s response to gravity.
Down
- 1. The inside of the seed contains an undeveloped plant.
- 2. What type of plants depend entirely upon their green stems for support and die each year as winter approaches?
- 5. A plant’s response to light.
- 6. In which root system, one main root is larger than the others?
- 7. produce the ovule or egg that eventually becomes the seed.
- 8. the flat extended part of the leaf.
- 9. The first leaves to form of a seedling.
- 11. a short stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem.
- 12. the hormone that stimulates plant growth, and also causes plants to respond to gravity, light, touch, and other effects of the environment.
- 13. All seeds have a tough outside covering.
- 15. The process by which plants produce their own food using water and carbon dioxide in the presence of sunlight to produce glucose and oxygen is called _____.
- 17. The cells that carry food through the plant's body.
- 18. The surface of a leaf has a single layer of cells that secretes a waxy covering called ______.
- 25. Which bud is formed at the tip of a stem?
