Across
- 3. Green pigment in plants used in photosynthesis
- 6. Movement of water in plants as it is taken up through the roots and released from the leaves as water vapour
- 8. Lack of something, such as nutrients
- 10. Process carried out by green plants to make their own food
- 12. Gas in the air that is produced by plants
- 13. Waste organic material
- 14. Single-cell thick transparent layer in the upper surface of a leaf
- 16. Plant cells that join to form a 'pipeline' through the stem of a plant
- 17. Leaf cells either side of each stoma that control the opening and closing of the stoma
Down
- 1. Large carbohydrate molecule
- 2. Specialised cell in roots of plants; the cell has long, hair-like extensions
- 3. Gas used by plants to make food
- 4. A very small hole
- 5. Waxy, waterproof, protective outer layer of a leaf
- 7. Tiny pore on the underneath surface of a leaf through which gases can move in and out
- 9. Orange-coloured liquid used to test for starch
- 10. Plant leaf cell that is long and narrow and packed with chloroplasts
- 11. What we call more than one stoma
- 15. Chemical put on soil to increase soil fertility and allow better growth of crop plants
- 17. Small sugar molecule