About Trees
What is the rough outer covering of a tree?
Bark
What is the tallest tree species?
coast redwood
What system of forest management causes the forest to grow more high quality trees that mature faster than they normally would?
sustained yield management
What method of tree harvesting involves removing all but a few selected trees?
seed-tree method
What forms at the base of a petiole to sever a leaf from a branch
abscission layer
What are the most common gymnosperms?
Conifers
What are the oldest known organisms on earth?
Bristlecone Pines
What is the science of studying and managing forests called?
Forestry
Once a leaf falls off, what is all that remains on the tree?
leaf scar
What structures of a stem allow air to enter the stem and provide for respiration?
lenticels
What is the ring of growth cells that separates a tree's bark from the woody tissues?
Vascular cambium
What is another name for broadleaf trees?
hardwood trees
What is the most heavily managed forest region?
Southern Forest
What system recycles carbon and oxygen in the environment?
Carbon-oxygen cycle
what is the portion of a stem between two leaves or two places where leaves once grew?
internode
The point beyond which conditions are unsuitable for tree growth is the _______________
Tree line
What type of gymnosperm has no branches and no frond-like leaves?
cycad
What forest region stretches from Delaware to Florida and west to Oklahoma and Texas?
Southern Forest
An object that produces carbon dioxide is a carbon ______________________
Source
Which type of root grows from a plants stem, branches, leaves or mature woody roots.
adventitious root
A tree that loses its leaves in the fall and remains bare in the winter is a _________________ tree.
Deciduous
The hard, inactive, dead wood of a tree is the _______________________
Heartwood
What forest region contains the greatest variety of tree species?
Central Broadleaf forest
What is the ring of growth cells that separates a tree's bark from the woody tissues?
Vascular cambium
Growth of a tree in length is the ______________ growth
Primary