All About Plants

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants (4)
  2. 3. The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil (6)
  3. 7. Partially decomposed organic matter (5)
  4. 9. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  5. 11. The part of the stamen that contains pollen (6)
  6. 12. A small hard fruit (4)
  7. 13. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  8. 14. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower (5)
  9. 15. Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds (4)

Down

  1. 2. The male reproductive organ of a flower (6)
  2. 4. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  3. 5. Of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids (8)
  4. 6. The female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma (6)
  5. 8. A small hard fruit (plural) (5)
  6. 9. Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored (plural) (6)
  7. 10. An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge (6)