Amazing Trees
A plant with a tall woody stem.
What is a tree?
A scientist that studies trees.
What is a dendrologist?
The name of the structure at the tip of a stem that produces new growth.
What is a bud?
Flower-bearing and seed-producing trees.
What are broadleaf trees?
This type of oak grows in the South and gets its name because its leaves always look fresh and alive.
What is the live oak?
Plants that grow only one year.
What are annuals?
The largest kind of tree.
What is the giant sequoia?
A spice that comes from the tasty bark of a tree.
What is cinnamon or nutmeg?
Another name for broadleaf trees.
What is deciduous?
This tree family includes poplars, has graceful drooping leaves and grows best near water.
What is the willow family?
Plants that live for many years.
What are perennials?
The age of a tree can be determined by these.
(3 words)
What are annual growth rings?
Doing this prevents nourishment from reaching the roots, causing a tree to die.
What is removing it's bark?
This tree is a source of sweet syrup.
What is a maple tree?
A fatal infection that killed many elms and is most often spread by beetles.
What is the Dutch elm disease?
Plants that live for two years.
What are biennials?
The tallest trees in the world.
What are the California Redwood?
What is the layer of the tree's trunk where new growth of bark and wood takes place?
What is the cambium layer?
The tree whose fruit is an acorn.
What is the oak?
The process of producing maple syrup and sugar.
What is sugaring?
Trees that lose their leaves in the fall.
What are deciduous trees?
Probably the oldest living tree.
What is the Bristlecone Pine?
Removing bark around the circumference of a tree.
What is girdling?
The most common birch in North American.
What is the paper birch?
The layer of cells that grow between the stem and twig, blocking water and minerals into the leaf.
Then the leaf stops making new chlorophyll (green pigment), so yellow and orange pigments begin to show. When sun strikes the leaf, leftover sugar converts into a red pigment.
What are cork cells?