Across
- 6. Several leaflets attached to a single petiole. which is attached to a plant. (Two words)
- 9. The entire leaf blade
- 11. The process plants use to make food for themselves, using light, water, and carbon dioxide.
- 13. The place where a leaf connects to the tree or the stem of the plant.
- 14. The invisible gas that plants need from the air to make food for themselves. (two words)
- 15. A living thing that eats other living things to survive.
- 16. Banana-shaped cells that expand and shrink to open and close the stoma of a leaf.(two words)
Down
- 1. The green pigment found in all green plants which helps them produce food.
- 2. A single leaf attached to a plant. (two words)
- 3. Individual blades on a compound leaf.
- 4. The process by which water is released from plants into the air.
- 5. A living thing that makes its own food and does not need to consume another living thing to survive.
- 7. An invisible gas that plants "exhale" into the air in the process of making food. Humans inhale this gas in order to breathe.
- 8. Plants that lose their leaves in the fall and winter.
- 10. The tip of the leaf.
- 12. The tiny pores or "mouths" on a leaf or other green part of a plant that take in gases to help make food for the plant.
