January Stems Choice Board

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Across
  1. 4. Pronounced and usually negative phototaxis or phototropism.
  2. 5. Exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action.
  3. 6. Having divisions in several states.
  4. 10. The destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity.
  5. 13. Many people call their first school an elementary school, but lots of others call it a _______ school.
  6. 14. A living thing (as a fungus) that lives on the dead or decaying material of plants and animals.
  7. 16. Trees and other plants remain _______ in cold weather.
  8. 17. Zeus was represented in mythology as being __________.
  9. 18. A cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice.
  10. 21. An organism that eats both meat and plants.
  11. 23. Some comedians have a very _______ sense of humor with comments that can hurt feelings and outrage people.
  12. 24. A person who studies how living things interact with their environment.
  13. 26. The children measured their _______.
Down
  1. 1. A ___________ loves books.
  2. 2. After saving for months, she decided to _______ on a luxurious spa weekend to treat herself.
  3. 3. A word of more than one syllable.
  4. 7. Adolph Hitler was a ____________.
  5. 8. Certain plants use _____________ to turn toward the sun.
  6. 9. A neophyte is someone who is learning a new skill and not good at it…yet.
  7. 11. Most countries celebrate the new year with a huge ____________ display.
  8. 12. A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment.
  9. 15. A person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania.
  10. 19. A thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire.
  11. 20. A small book for teaching children to read.
  12. 22. A residence hall provides rooms for individuals or for groups usually without private baths.
  13. 25. The man in the monopoly game doesn’t need glasses for both eyes, so he wears a _______ instead.