Chapter 9: Plant Diversity

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Across
  1. 5. organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the Sun, to make its own food
  2. 7. waxy, protective layer that slows the evaporation of water from a plant’s surface
  3. 10. small opening in the epidermis of a leaf
  4. 11. plant vascular tissue that carries dissolved sugars throughout a plant
Down
  1. 1. layer of plant tissue that produces new vascular tissue and grows between xylem and phloem
  2. 2. group of cells in an organism
  3. 3. tissue composed of tubelike cells that transport water and nutrients in some plants
  4. 4. plant vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved nutrients from the roots to the stem and the leaves
  5. 6. structure that anchors a nonvascular seedless plant to a surface
  6. 8. to carry somebody or something
  7. 9. organic compound made of chains of glucose molecules