Mother Nature

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The color of grass (5)
  2. 5. The male reproductive organ of a flower (6)
  3. 8. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty (5)
  4. 11. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  5. 13. The female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma (6)
  6. 14. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  7. 15. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)

Down

  1. 1. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant (5)
  2. 2. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic (13)
  3. 3. The part of the stamen that contains pollen (6)
  4. 5. The rays of the sun (8)
  5. 6. The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant (6)
  6. 7. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored (5)
  7. 9. The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil (6)
  8. 10. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural) (5)
  9. 12. One of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone (5)