End Of Semester Extra Credit

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Across
  1. 4. long tube like structures that use capillary action to transport water in the plant.
  2. 7. crops planted to prevent erosion, add nutrients to the soil, aerate, and improve overall soil quality
  3. 8. this organism sports a fruiting body above ground, but the colony lives underground. The worlds main decomposers.
  4. 10. This insect loves eating aphids, and sports a red shell w/black spots
  5. 11. responsible for fertilizing the flowers of plants.
  6. 12. Macronutrient that plants need the biggest supply of
  7. 14. Structures used to transport the "food" of the plant. It's the veins that pump the "plant blood".
  8. 16. area of the plant where new, undifferentiated cells are rapidly growing.
  9. 17. Weapons are apart of his religion, and he has a small green friend who does the wavy hand thing...
Down
  1. 1. process of combining water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to make glucose.
  2. 2. the basic building block of all plant parts. Made of six carbons
  3. 3. plants that put a lot of nitrogen back in the soil, due to symbiosis w/bacteria
  4. 5. Mr. Clemmon's favorite superhero growing up.
  5. 6. the process of taking the scions of one plant and attaching them to another stem, trunk, or root system.
  6. 9. propagating plants from cuttings, like what's done w/potatoes or Mr. Clemmons's geranium.
  7. 13. Using a black plastic sheet to terminate cover crops.
  8. 15. tough molecule made by the plant that makes up things like the stem, bark, and the woody parts of plants.