8th Grade Botany Word Scramble

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8th Grade Botany

Lesson 1

Question	Answer
1. Botany	The study of plants.
2. Biology	The study of all living things.
3. Vascular	Plants with tubes that carry liquid inside.
4. Taxonomy	Branch of science dealing with the classification and naming of all living things.
5. Homostasis	The ability to maintain conditions inside our bodies.
6. Heterotroph	A plant that is unable to produce food on its own.
7. Cytoplasm	The region of the cell that is made of a gel-like material.
8. Fossils	Ethanol is derived from this.
9. Food and water	Organisms require this for growth and energy.
10. Cell membrane	The semi-permiable outside layer surrounding the contents of a cell.
11. Nucleus	The dense area of the cell that contains the chemical instructions that direct the cell's activities.
12. The purpose of the flower	To produce seeds.
13. Gasoline	Fossil fuel
14. Vascular Plant	Uses tubes to get its water.
15. Latin	Language that scientists prefer to use.
16. Autotroph	Plant that can produce its own food.
17. Ethanol	Biomass fuel
18. 3rd day	Day of creation plants were made.
19. Non-vascular Plant	Uses absorption to get its water.
20. Angiosperm	A flower producing plant.
21. Veins	Tubes in a plant that transport water, chemicals, and sugar.
22. Biomass Fuel	A renewable fuel made from the products of living organisms.
23. Fossil Fuel	Made from non-renewable fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago.
24. Chloroplast	A plant structure in which photosynthesis occures.
25. Cell Wall	The firm non-living layer that encloses and supports the cells of most plants.

Created by: LiseBrinkley on 2011-09-02