Plot of Land

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Any of various small biting flies: midges (plural) (5)
  2. 7. The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule (9)
  3. 9. The color of grass (5)
  4. 11. A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion (5)
  5. 13. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  2. 2. The solid part of the earth's surface (4)
  3. 4. Bright light from the sun (8)
  4. 5. Water falling from clouds (4)
  5. 6. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)
  6. 8. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)
  7. 10. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive (plural) (5)
  8. 12. A secret scheme to do something (4)