Spring Botany Word Search: Germination, Pollination and Photosynthesis

The science of spring growth. Seeds wake up in germination; deciduous trees grow new leaves full of chlorophyll for photosynthesis; flowers open their parts, sepals, petals, stamens with anthers and the pistil, for pollination; and perennial and herbaceous plants return each year from a bulb or a rhizome.

"Photosynthesis", 14 letters, is one of the longest words in the Easter collection.

Challenging Spring Botany and Nature Vocabulary: 13 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 7 of the 13 read backwards. The longest word is Photosynthesis, with 14 letters.

Anther: The part of a flower's stamen that holds the pollen.
Bulb: An underground bud, like a tulip or daffodil bulb, that stores food for the plant.
Chlorophyll: The green pigment that lets plants capture sunlight.
Deciduous: Describing trees that lose their leaves in fall and grow new ones in spring.
Germination: When a seed begins to sprout.
Herbaceous: Describing plants with soft stems that die back in winter.
Perennial: A plant that lives for more than two years.
Photosynthesis: How plants use sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
Pistil: The female part of a flower.
Pollination: Moving pollen from flower to flower so seeds can form.
Rhizome: An underground stem that sends out roots and shoots, like an iris's.
Sepal: The small green leaf-like parts under a flower's petals.
Stamen: The male part of a flower, which makes pollen.

How to Solve the Challenging Spring Botany and Nature Word Search

"Bulb" is the only diagonal. "Photosynthesis", 14 letters, runs upward, like "Deciduous", with the only D, and "Perennial". "Chlorophyll", "Germination", with the only G, and "Herbaceous" run down. "Anther", "Sepal" and "Stamen" read backwards. "Pistil", "Pollination" and "Rhizome", with the only Z, read across.

Spring Botany Activities

Dissect a flower and find the stamen, anther, pistil and sepals.
Sprout beans on wet paper and record germination.
Explain photosynthesis with a simple diagram.