Tree anatomy
Tree people
Tree vocabulary
Tree ecology
Well-known trees
100
This often-edible part of a tree can’t be produced until the flower has been pollinated.
What is fruit?
100
This term is sometimes used as an insult to describe somebody who likes trees so much that they might be seen embracing them.
What is a tree hugger?
100
This annual holiday on which people are encouraged to plant trees officially occurs on the last Friday of every April in the US and may be celebrated on different days depending on the state or country.
What is Arbor Day?
100
Florida lacks this type of ecosystem, which is characterized by a lot of moisture and has been called “the world’s largest pharmacy” because more than 1/4 of all natural medicines have been discovered there.
What is a rainforest?
100
This tree, found in Canada and the US, produces winged seeds called samaras as well as a sap that is often consumed with some popular breakfast foods.
What is maple or sugar maple?
200
This part of a tree can help prevent soil erosion when they grow deep enough.
What is a root?
200
Often associated with plaid shirts and beards, this is the term for someone who professionally cuts down trees.
What is a lumberjack or logger?
200
This is the process plants, including trees, use to convert light into fuel.
What is photosynthesis?
200
The longleaf pine is one of the forest species that relies on the heat from this disturbance, which is often considered a negative factor but is essential for many forests in Florida.
What is fire?
200
Some people argue that the sabal _____, the state tree of Florida, is not actually a tree because plants in this family lack bark, rings, and other characteristics of trees, making it closer to a grass than a tree.
What is palm or palmetto?
300
Florida scrub jays are considered ecosystem engineers because of the way they can grow many new trees in the process of distributing this part of oak trees.
What is an acorn?
300
This term, which contains a word that is part of an annual tree-planting celebration, describes a person who plants and takes care of trees, often in an urban setting.
What is an arborist?
300
As opposed to an evergreen tree, this type of tree loses its leaves every year.
What is deciduous?
300
Trees clean the air and fight climate change in multiple ways, including the process in which they pull this element out of the air and replace it with oxygen.
What is carbon?
300
A story about George Washington, which is probably untrue, tells of how the young boy cut down this type of tree in his father’s yard.
Cherry tree
400
This term describes the highest branches of the trees in a forest.
What is the canopy?
400
This is the term for a person who manages a forest, often with the goal of timber production.
What is a forester or silviculturist?
400
This type of tree has needle-like or scale-like leaves, but the clue is in the fact that they also produce cones.
What is a conifer?
400
In recent years, scientists have started to understand that trees use this non-plant organism to communicate with each other and transfer nutrients.
What is fungus, mushroom, mycelium, or mycorrhizal network?
400
This species of tree found in California is the tallest in the world.
What is the redwood or sequoia?
500
When the regal-sounding collection of branches and leaves of some tree species do not touch that same part of other trees, as seen in this photo, it is called “_____ shyness.”
What is crown (shyness)?
500
Using the Ancient Greek word for tree, “dendron,” this is the term for a person who studies trees and the way that they are classified.
What is a dendrologist?
500
Dendrochronology is the practice of using tree rings for this purpose.
What is figuring out the age of the tree?
500
Three species of this tree are found along much of Florida’s coast and are important in acting as a barrier against hurricane and tropical storm damage.
What is mangrove?
500
This tree, which is native to Asia but commonly planted throughout the US, is called a living fossil because it has existed for so long.
What is a gingko tree?