Towering Trees
This is the tallest tree species:
Coast Redwood
This is the structure that allows a twig to grow in length:
Terminal Bud
This is the largest forest region:
northern forest
This is the rough outer covering of a tree:
Bark
This is the term for the growth of a stem in diameter:
Secondary
This is the term that refers to trees that keep their leaves year round:
Evergreen
This is a type of tree branching with the main branches close to the ground:
Spreading
This is the forest that extends from Canada to Mexico:
Rocky Mountain Forest
This is the main stem of a tree:
trunk
This is one of the differences between a tree and a shrub:a
a tree has one main stem, a shrub has several equally large stems
This is the type of spiny tree that is especially designed for life in the desert:
Cacti
This is the central core of a young woody stem:
Pith
This is the forest’s thick top layer of interlaced leaves:
Canopy
This is the top leafy portion of a fully grown tree:
crown
This is the term for the growth of a tree from its length:
Primary Growth
This is the most common gymnosperm:
Conifer
This is the type of root that goes deep into the ground and has secondary roots branching off the main root:
taproot
This is a forest that has not been influenced by man or used for timber:
old-growth Forest
This is a place on a stem that leaves grow out of:
node
This describes a tree that loses its leaves in the fall and stays bare all winter:
deciduous
This is the type of gymnosperm that has no branches and frond-like leaves:
Cycad
This is the type of root that grows from a plant’s stem, branches, leaves or mature woody roots:
Advintitious
This is the type of forest that grows up after a virgin forest is cut:
secondary forest
This is the main tissue of a trunk:
Wood
This is the layer of growth cells just below the bark of a tree:
vascular Cambium