Tree Facts
Trees in Books
Fire!
Carbon
Policy & Practice
100
This type of tree keeps its needles year-round
What is a conifer?
100
This famous mustachioed creature "speaks for the trees."
Who is the Lorax?
100
What causes most wildfires in the US?
Who are humans?
100
Carbon has this many electrons
How many are six?
100
This international treaty, signed in 2015, aims to reduce global carbon emissions.
What is the Paris Agreement?
200
Michigan, Hand, Double bit, and Maul can all be used to refer to this type of implement?
What is an axe?
200
"This forest is old. Very old. Full of memory... and anger.”
What is Fangorn Forest?
200
These specially trained firefighters are deployed to combat wildfire via parachute
What is a smokejumper?
200
This carbon-rich fuel is one of the dirtiest energy sources and a major emitter when burned.
What is coal?
200
The primary goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit global temperature rise to this threshold above pre-industrial levels.
What is 2°C?
300
Trees remove this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and store it as biomass
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Shel Silverstein's Giving Tree ended with this final gift to the Boy.
What is a "a quiet place to sit and rest" ?
300
This term describes vegetation that serves as fuel in a wildfire
What is fuel load?
300
This US city is often stated as the least climate resilient, with a two meter sea rise forecasted to put 1 million of it's metropolitan residents underwater.
What is Miami?
300
I’m found by the sea and beneath the Earth’s crust,
In oil I deal—and in offsets, I trust.
I sell what pollutes, yet I’m buying to dwell
At the top of the charts for green credits as well.
What is Shell?
400
This 379 foot tall tree towers over the California coast
What is Hyperion?
400
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem find treasures in a tree's knothole placed there by this character.
Who is Boo Radley?
400
This color is associated with 'high' in the Fire Danger Rating System
What is Yellow?
400
This carbon sequestration technique often involves excavators, and can also be employed to mitigate wild fire risk.
What is wood vaulting?
400
The two D's in REDD+
What are Deforestation and Degradation?
500
This is the scientific term for the study of tree rings.
What is dendrochronology?
500
Henry Wadsworth Longfellows famous lines 'This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight"
are a famous example of this type of rhymtic pattern?
What is dactylic hexameter?
500
Smokey Bear first start educating the American Public about the danger of fires in this year.
When is 1944?
500
This tool is rated on a hardness scale created by Josef Hardtmuth and has become famous for working well in zero gravity and being most popular in the color yellow.
What is a pencil?
500
This concept requires that carbon offsets represent emissions reductions that wouldn’t have happened without the project.
What is additionality?