Importance of Leaves

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The color of a banana (6)
  2. 7. To go back and forth (11)
  3. 9. Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground (8)
  4. 10. A word that expresses a meaning ___ to the meaning of another word (8)
  5. 11. Aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative (plural) (6)
  6. 12. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  7. 13. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (4)
  8. 14. The rays of the sun (8)
  9. 15. The woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue (5)

Down

  1. 2. The outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates (9)
  2. 3. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a ___ school and that is (8)
  3. 4. Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms (11)
  4. 5. A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic (8)
  5. 6. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  6. 8. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  7. 11. The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea (5)