Plant Systems

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)
  2. 5. A small hard fruit (plural) (5)
  3. 7. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)
  4. 8. A division of some larger or more complex organization (plural) (8)
  5. 13. The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules (11)
  6. 16. Made of or containing or resembling ___ (5)

Down

  1. 1. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored (plural) (6)
  2. 3. The act of storing something (7)
  3. 4. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (4)
  4. 6. A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ (4)
  5. 9. Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms (11)
  6. 10. The rays of the sun (8)
  7. 11. Something having the property of being analogous to something else (8)
  8. 12. To cause to go into a solution (9)
  9. 14. A communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same (7)
  10. 15. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole (5)