Leaf structure and functions

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Across
  1. 5. It's waxy layer provides a protective barrier against mechanical injury, water loss, and infection
  2. 7. The process used by plants to turn sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into food (sugars) and oxygen
  3. 9. Transports water and nutrients from the plant–soil interface to stems and leaves
  4. 10. Cells contain a lot of chloroplasts to help them perform the photosynthesis
Down
  1. 1. Outermost layer of cells covering the stem, root, leaf, flower, fruit, and seed parts of a plant
  2. 2. The name of the green pigment that plants use to make food
  3. 3. Conducts foods made in the leaves during photosynthesis to all other parts of the plant
  4. 4. Plants use the energy of the sun to change water and carbon dioxide into a sugar called ...
  5. 6. The microscopic openings or pores in the epidermis of leaves and young stems
  6. 8. Irregularly shaped cells with wide gaps between them in order to facilitate gas exchange