Across
- 2. Seed testing method using water.
- 5. Seeds that can grow and survive.
- 7. Part storing food for the embryo.
- 8. Seeds may stop growing in this stage.
- 9. Method to open hard seed coats.
- 10. Poor seeds make plants grow poorly.
- 14. The process where a seed starts to grow.
- 15. Keeps seeds alive until planting.
- 17. First part to emerge during germination.
- 18. Helps water enter hard seed coats.
- 19. Means the seed is alive and healthy.
- 21. Needed degree of temperature for germination.
- 22. Cloth method for testing seed germination.
Down
- 1. Farmers test this before planting seeds.
- 3. Cracks or holes that reduce seed quality.
- 4. Lab dish for germinating seeds.
- 5. Sign that seed embryo is alive.
- 6. Shows proportion of seeds that sprout.
- 7. Breaking coat to let water in.
- 11. Wind separates full seeds from empty ones.
- 12. Happens when seeds don’t germinate.
- 13. Removing empty seeds by air.
- 16. Percentage farmers compute after testing.
- 20. Stage when seeds temporarily stop growing.