Plant Growth and Adaptations

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. To cause to grow or sprout (9)
  2. 6. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  3. 7. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)
  4. 8. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  5. 9. The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions (plural) (11)

Down

  1. 1. The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural) (5)
  2. 2. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic (13)
  3. 4. Any substance that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis (plural) (9)
  4. 5. Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn (6)