Define
Identify Plants
Tree Characteristics
Identify Trees
More Tree Characteristics
100

Single cells produced instead of seeds in some plants

Spores

100

A sideways-growing plant that produces spores instead of seeds

Fern

100

Oldest living thing

Bristlecone Pine

100

The largest of all trees; found only on the western slopes of California's Sierra Nevada range

Giant Sequoia

100

It gives us the acorn

Oak

200

Fungi that feed on dead matter

Saprophytes

200

A plant that does not have tubes for moving nutrients and water and does not have any true leaves, stems, or roots

Moss

200

Source of maple syrup

Sugar Maple

200

A pine of the hot, dry Southwest that produces tasty, edible nuts

Pinyon Pine

200

The tree whose cones stick straight up from the branch

Fir

300

Leaves of a palm tree or fern

Fronds

300

A plant that does not have chlorophyll

Fungi

300

Smooth, white, paper-like bark that peels off

Paper Birch

300

An attractive ornamental tree with frosty blue needles

Blue Spruce

300

The only tree with bundled needles

Pine

400

A fern's roots that grow downward from the underside of the stem

Rhizoids

400

A large group of plants found all over the world that do not need tubes to transport food; some are the smallest green plants

Algae

400

Not a fir, but a pine

Douglas Fir

400

A deciduous conifer with needles that turn deep gold before falling to the ground

Larch (Tamarack)

400

A tree that is a monocot and it's leaves are called fronds

Palms

500

A network of cells strung together in a threadlike structure that makes up the main part of the fungus

Mycelium

500

A fungus used to make penicillin and cheese

Mold

500

Reddish, aromatic wood that repels moths

Cedar

500

A deciduous conifer growing in the swamps of the South, projecting portions of its roots called knees

Bald Cypress

500

Long, thin leaves and drooping branches

Willow

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