Plant Nutrition
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
p
h
o
o
h
e
s
How plants make food from sunlight
2.
g
u
c
A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms
3.
w
t
Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain
4.
c
r
o
An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous ___
5.
d
i
d
An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule
6.
c
h
o
h
l
Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms
7.
o
y
e
Gas in the air that we need to breathe
8.
c
o
r
a
t
Plastid containing ___ and other pigments
9.
l
t
What lets us see; the opposite of dark
10.
e
n
e
The power to do work or make things move
11.
a
r
b
To take up mentally
12.
l
f
The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
13.
g
e
The color of grass
14.
b
a
s
The total mass of living matter in a given unit area
15.
a
p
h
r
e
Layer of air around the Earth
16.
a
a
t
a
t
The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions
17.
s
u
r
The outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
18.
a
e
A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
19.
p
i
s
d
Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
20.
c
e
Tiniest unit of living things
22.
r
a
t
i
o
The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules
23.
m
n
a
l
Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition (plural)