Across
- 4. trees with dense hard wood
- 5. grasses used for lawn coverings
- 7. part of plant which grows above ground
- 12. organisms which are consumers of other organisms
- 13. leaf stalk
- 14. cells which make food from sunlight
- 17. small blade on a compound leaf
- 21. the study of living things.
- 22. plant whose stem stays relatively soft
- 23. pressure caused by retaining water
- 26. loss of water vapor from leaves and stems
- 30. trees which lose their leaves each fall and are bare during winter
- 31. layer of cells which “cuts” the connection between leaf and petiole
- 32. grasses used as food by livestock
- 35. large vein running down center of leaf blade
- 36. grasses grown for grains used for food
- 38. organisms capable of making their own food
- 41. creeping stem that grows above ground
- 42. flat green portion of leaf
Down
- 1. process of converting sunlight to energy (food)
- 2. study of plants
- 3. tissue which allows plant to grow in diameter
- 6. a plant in the pea family
- 8. middle portion inside a leaf
- 9. a close fitting cover that wraps around the base of a stem
- 10. burning sugar for energy
- 11. plants that live several years and develop a large amount of wood.
- 15. area where organisms live
- 16. living things
- 18. part of system with definite form and function
- 19. the fluid medium for molecules of cells
- 20. vascular tissue which transports water and minerals upward from roots
- 24. part of plant which grows below ground
- 25. miniature organs
- 27. crescent shaped cells which expand and contract to open stoma
- 28. study of animals
- 29. where leaves grow from the stems
- 33. flowering plants which produce seeds covered by fruit
- 34. - grasses
- 37. tiny openings in the skin of leaves
- 39. living material which performs specific tasks for organs
- 40. - vascular tissue which transports food down from the leaves