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Plant Growth Habits Word Search

Compare words describing how a plant grows and occupies space. Some entries refer to life span, others to height, branching, or the direction of stems. Keeping those kinds of description separate makes the clues more precise without implying that a plant’s growth habit alone establishes its care requirements, mature dimensions, or suitability for a particular room or garden. This three-page PDF contains an eighteen-by-eighteen letter grid with a twelve-word bank, a companion definition worksheet, and a separate marked-grid solution.

Format

PDF, not fillable

Pages

3

Paper

A4 & US Letter

Orientation

Portrait

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Find and mark the twelve listed words in the letter grid. Use the matching definition clues to check each term. Complete the companion clue worksheet, then compare your results with the answer key. Words may run horizontally, vertically or diagonally, forwards or backwards. Page 1 is the puzzle, page 2 the clues, and page 3 the grid solution. The clue answers follow the word-bank order.

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