ANCIENT WONDERS
These plants have existed for about this many years.
Answer: What is 50 million years?
Date palms grow best in temperatures above this number.
Answer: What is 100°F?
Dates contain a lot of this natural substance.
Answer: What is sugar?
Dates must be harvested using this method.
Answer: What is hand-picking?
Date palms do NOT produce these growth features that most trees have.
Answer: What are tree rings?
Ancient seeds from this type of date palm were germinated in 2005.
Answer: What is the Judean date palm?
This saying describes the perfect growing condition for date palms.
Answer: What is “Feet in running water, head in the fire”?
Even though dates are sugary, they have a low glycaemic index because they are high in this.
Answer: What is fibre?
Date palms are called the “tree of life” because they provide food and these materials.
Answer: What are building materials?
The scientific name of the date palm.
Answer: What is Phoenix dactylifera?
Ancient Egyptians used date palms to measure this.
Answer: What are years/time?
Despite their size, date palms are technically classified as this type of plant.
Answer: What is a massive woody herb?
The Greek word dáktulos means this body part.
Answer: What is a finger?
Date palms can continue producing fruit for this long.
Answer: What is 100–400 years?
Scientists found ancient date seeds preserved in this type of container.
Answer: What is a jar?
The ruler connected to the ancient date palm seeds found at Masada.
Answer: Who is Herod the Great?
Despite their size, date palms are technically classified as this type of plant.
Answer: What is a massive woody herb?
A single date palm can produce more than this many pounds of fruit yearly.
Answer: What is 150 pounds?
These giant plants can grow between this many feet tall.
Answer: What is 50–75 feet?
This is unusual about date palm seeds: they can stay alive for this long.
Answer: What is thousands of years?
The region where the date palm became known as the “tree of life.”
Answer: What is the Middle East?
Date palms belong to this plant group instead of being true trees.
Answer: What are monocotyledons?
Dates are famous because ripe fruits rarely do this.
Answer: What is rot/spoil easily?
Dates became important in ancient trade because they were easy to transport and did not easily do this.
Answer: What is spoil/rot?
This makes machine harvesting impossible for dates.
Answer: What is their delicate nature?