Across
- 6. Diffusion of water molecules.
- 7. Small opening in the epidermis of a leaf.
- 8. Organic compound made of chains of glucose molecules.
- 9. Leaf of a fern.
- 10. Organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the Sun, to make its own food.
- 13. Plant vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved nutrients from the roots to the stem and the leaves.
Down
- 1. tissue Tissue composed of tubelike cells that transport water and nutrients in some plants.
- 2. Group of cells in an organism.
- 3. Plant vascular tissue that carries dissolved sugars throughout a plant.
- 4. To carry somebody or something.
- 5. Waxy, protective layer that slows the evaporation of water from a plant’s surface.
- 11. Layer of plant tissue that produces new vascular tissue and grows between xylem and phloem.
- 12. Structure that anchors a nonvascular seedless plant to a surface.
