Plants Vocabulary

4. A fertilized egg, produced by the joining of a sperm cell and an egg cell.
6. A thin, rootlike structure that anchors a moss and absorbs water and nutrients for the plant.
10. A flowering plant that lives fro more than two years.
11. A plant that has true vascular tissue for transporting materials.
12. The process by which autotrophs capture and use light energy to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
16. A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in two years.
17. A sac-like organelle that stores water, food and other materials.
18. The stage in the life cycle of a plant in which the plant produces spores.

1. A young organism that develops from a zygote.
2. A plant hormone that speeds up the rate at which a plant's cells grow and controls a plant's response to light.
3. The sprouting of the embryo out of a seed.
5. The vascular tissue through which food moves in some plants.
7. The reproductive structure of a gymnosperm.
8. Compressed layers of dead sphagnum mosses that accumulate in bogs.
9. The process by which water is lost through a plant's leaves.
12. The transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures to female reproductive structures in plants
13. The plant structure that contains a young plant and food supply inside a protective covering.
14. A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season.
15. A colorful, leaflike structure of some flowers.