Fun with Plants

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Not endowed with life (9)
  2. 5. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  3. 6. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural) (5)
  4. 8. The star our planet orbits (3)
  5. 9. A sustained bass note (5)
  6. 11. A mixture of gases required for breathing (3)

Down

  1. 1. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  2. 2. Colorful blooms that grow on plants (7)
  3. 3. The experience of being alive (6)
  4. 7. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually (5)
  5. 8. A small hard fruit (plural) (5)
  6. 10. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants (4)