Growing Up
Productive Trees
Oak Trees
Twigs
More Twigs
100
Some of the oldest living things on earth
What are trees?
100
Most trees are ________________
What are angiosperms?
100
The __________ of a tree has no limit to how much it can grow.
What is width?
100
The bud at the very tip of a twig
What is a terminal bud?
100
C is a ....
What is an auxiliary bud?
200
A young tree which has grown to be a few feet high
What is sapling?
200
Flowers that have either stamens or carpels, but not both
What is an imperfect flower?
200
An insect which eats acorns and deposits its egg inside them
What is an acorn weevil?
200
Small nicks scattered over the surface of a twig where the tree takes in oxygen
What are lenticels?
200
F is a ........
What is a leaf scar?
300
A baby plant that has just begun to grow
What is sapling?
300
The roots of trees help with ___________
What is erosion?
300
The tendency of oak trees to produce an overabundance of acorns in a sporadic way
What is masting?
300
The place where last year's terminal bud was
What is a terminal bud scar?
300
D is a .....
What is a node?
400
Surrounds the heartwood and is made of xylem
What is sapwood?
400
The air in a city with many trees should have
What is cleaner air and/or a lot of oxygen?
400
Oaks need to be at least this old before they start to produce acorns
What is 20 years?
400
Buds that grow up and down a twig, but not at the tip
What are auxiliary buds?
400
G is a .....
What is a terminal bud scar?
500
The wood in the very core of the tree
What is heartwood?
500
Most angiosperm trees produce.....
What are imperfect flowers?
500
You can know how much the twig grew in one year by measuring the distance between the new terminal bud and...
What is the scar of last year’s terminal bud?
500
The places on a twig where buds are located
What are nodes?
500
B are .....
What are lenticels?