Kinds of Branching
Leaf Me Alone
Hodgepodge
Key Features
Tree-mendous
100
When leaves grow directly across from one another.
What is opposite?
100
Conifers have these.
What are needles?
100
Type of key used to identify trees.
What is dichotomous?
100
Conifers with needles in bundles of two or five.
What are pines?
100
A tree that has broad leaves, rather than needles.
What is a broadleaf (deciduous) tree?
200
Sugar maple have this type of branching.
What is opposite.
200
Entire or toothed, lobed.
What are leaf margins?
200
Groups of trees that have cones.
What are conifers?
200
A kind of tree that may have pointed or rounded lobes on the leaves.
What is oak?
200
The only kind of coniferous tree in northern Wisconsin that looses all its needles in the fall.
What is tamarack (larch)?
300
Alternate.
What is the kind of branching where leaves or branches do not grow directly across from each other?
300
Sinus.
What is the space between lobes of leaves?
300
The mark left behind when a leaf falls.
What is a leaf scar?
300
A kind of tree with a papery bark.
What is paper (white) birch?
300
Nonliving part of the tree.
What is bark?
400
Oaks have this kind of branching.
What is alternate?
400
Ash, hickory, and locust trees have this kind of leaf.
What is compound?
400
This part of a leaf can be flat, round, or square.
What is the petiole?
400
A kind of tree with opposite branching and simple leaves.
What is maple?
400
This is the reproductive structure of a conifer.
What is a cone?
500
More than two leaves at a node.
What is whorled?
500
Fascicle.
What is the name for the bundle of needles?
500
Simple.
What is one blade (leaf) attached to a twig.
500
Multiple leaflets attached at a center point.
What is palmately compound?
500
A northern Wisconsin tree with valuable veneer wood that produces nuts.
What is black walnut?
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