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This is a tree's largest and strongest stem.
What is the tree trunk?
This part of a tree helps to keep it warm, cool, and protects from insects and disease.
What is the tree bark?
A sticky substance that trees use to seal a wound.
What is Tree Sap?
A watery substance with 2% sugar content that flows from sugar maple trees in early winter.
What is maple sap?
This part of the tree secures it in the ground.
What are tree roots?
Trees produce these tiny structures in the winter (inside are new leaves)
What are buds?
Trees that make fruit will produce these in the spring and summer to attract pollinators.
What are flowers?
These structures allow trees to capture sunlight to carry out photosynthesis.
What are leaves?
What are branches?
This is another name for trees that are evergreen, producing needles.
What are softwood trees?
What are twigs?
These tiny holes on trees that help the tree exchange gases with the atmosphere.
What are Lenticles?
This is the layer of a tree found in the center of the tree ring pattern.
What is the heartwood?
This type of tree includes Oaks, Maples, Hickory, Walnut.
What are hardwood trees?
This is something that can cause stress to a living tree.
What is? ______(answer will vary)
What is a wood wound?
This is a resource that trees compete for with each other.
What is? _______(answers will vary).
This is the process that trees use to convert sunlight, water, and co2 into sugar, and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
Also known as "inner bark" of a tree.
What is Phloem?
Storing starches and making growth hormones are the job of this part of a tree.
What are the roots?
This layer of dividing tree cells helps the tree grow bigger in diameter.
What is the Cambium?
Water and minerals travel up the tree using this layer.
What is the Xylem?
What are tree buds?