Across
- 2. type of stem that is hard and rigid
- 4. anchor plants and absorb water
- 6. rootlike structures that anchor nonvascular plants
- 10. where pollen is produced
- 12. connects the stigma to the ovary
- 15. vascular plant that produces flowers
- 16. most common type of nonvascular plant
- 18. male reproductive part of the flower
- 19. type of stem that is soft, like the ones in flowers
- 20. leaflike structures that protect the flower bud
- 23. hollow structure at the base of the pistil that protects seeds as they develop
- 24. sperm cells
- 26. tissue found in the stem that produces new xylem and phloem
- 27. controls where gases enter and leave a leaf
- 28. vascular tissue that moves food through a plant
Down
- 1. animals help with this
- 3. cone bearing plant
- 5. made up of embryo, stored food, seed coat
- 7. two cotyledons
- 8. when a seed cracks open the seed coat and the embryo pushes out of the seed
- 9. vascular tissue that moves water
- 11. the process of water evaporating from the leaves
- 12. used by seedless vascular plants to reproduce
- 13. how seeds get scattered
- 14. "naked seed"
- 17. site of photosynthesis
- 21. young plant that grows from the fertilized egg
- 22. protects the root as it grows through the soil
- 25. female reproductive part of the flower