Science Word search

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear ___ (4)
  2. 5. A workplace for the conduct of ___ research (10)
  3. 6. A small hard fruit (4)
  4. 8. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored (5)
  5. 9. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  6. 10. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty (5)
  7. 11. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (4)

Down

  1. 2. Any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow (9)
  2. 3. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually (5)
  3. 4. Study of the natural world through experiments (7)
  4. 6. A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ (4)
  5. 7. Any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually (5)