Plant Science Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Ovary of the flowers grows into the fruit.
  2. 4. nonvascular plants that are ground-hugging, and highly dependent on a moist environment.
  3. 7. Shortened stems surrounded by scales
  4. 13. secondary veins in a leaf.
  5. 15. carries food to the entire plant
  6. 17. a pore in a leaf where water vapor and other gases leave and enter the plant.
  7. 20. stalk between stigma and ovary
  8. 21. Thickened, underground stems that store carbs
  9. 24. Contains the stamen, pistil, petals, and sepals
  10. 25. Collection of simple fruit developed from a flower having
  11. 27. A mature or ripened ovary formed after fertilization is called this.
  12. 28. edge of a leaf.
  13. 29. colorful and often scented part of the flower that attracts insects. Collectively called the corolla
  14. 32. the terminal point of the leaf.
  15. 34. composed of a number of closely associated flowers
  16. 35. thin, stem-like stalk, supporting anther
  17. 36. A tough and winter hardy stem
  18. 40. Thick stems that run below the ground
Down
  1. 1. The kingdom plants belong to
  2. 2. Flower Missing any of the parts listed above
  3. 5. reproductive structure inside ovary
  4. 6. Roots that are above ground functioning as support and stabilization for the plant
  5. 8. one fruit from a single ovary
  6. 9. the flattened, green, expanded portion of a leaf.
  7. 10. The main root of a plant, it is heavy and thick and doesn’t have many side or lateral branches
  8. 11. base of pistil which holds the ovules
  9. 12. sac located at the tip of the filament that contains pollen.
  10. 14. carries water and nutrients from the soil to the upper part of the plant
  11. 16. upper part of pistil where pollen is deposited
  12. 18. together is called multiple fruit. (multiple flowers become one fruit)
  13. 19. Succulent and green stem
  14. 22. part of the flower which encloses the bud before it opens. Collectively called the caylx
  15. 23. the leaf stalk (connects blade to stem).
  16. 26. vascular plants
  17. 30. this kind of plant has one cotyledon,parallel leaf veins, and fibrous root systems
  18. 31. leaf-like appendages (at the base of petiole of some leaves
  19. 33. the most prominent central vein in a leaf.
  20. 37. this kind of plant has two cotelydons, net-like veins, and a fibrous root system
  21. 38. Thickened, compact, fleshy stems
  22. 39. Thin, hairlike, and numerous roots