Tree anatomy
This often-edible part of a tree can’t be produced until the flower has been pollinated.
What is fruit?
The bottom level of a forest.
What is ground cover?
This annual holiday on which people are encouraged to plant trees officially occurs on the last Friday of every April in the US and may be celebrated on different days depending on the state or country.
What is Arbor Day?
A forest that is warm year-round and has 2 seasons, a wet and a dry one.
What is a tropical/sub-tropical forest?
this tree was useful for canoe making with its long, straight trunk, and has a leaf shaped like a cartoon cat
Tulip tree or tulip poplar
This part of a tree can help prevent soil erosion when they grow deep enough.
What is a root?
The level of the forest where bushes tend to grow to.
What is the shrub layer?
This is the process plants, including trees, use to convert light into fuel.
What is photosynthesis?
This is a forest that is moderate for temperate, having both warm and cold seasons.
What is a temperate forest?
this type of tree has 3 main lobes that are pointy and has seeds in a helicopter shape seed pod
Red maple
This fruit from an oak tree is often listed as a squirrels favorite food.
What is an acorn?
This is the level that smaller trees tend to grow to. They frequently have thinner trunks, and do not require a lot of sunlight.
What is an understory?
As opposed to an evergreen tree, this type of tree loses its leaves every year.
What is deciduous?
This forest has the shortest growing season, as most of the year is incredibly cold.
What is a boreal forest?
this tree has cigar shaped buds and smooth gray bark
Beech
This turns into next years leaves and flowers. We can find them on trees in the winter to help us ID them.
What is a bud?
This is the top level of the forest where the trees grow up all the way.
What is a canopy?
This type of tree has needle-like or scale-like leaves, but the clue is in the fact that they also produce cones.
What is a conifer?
Maryland forests fall under this category of forests, where leaves fall each year
Deciduous
this type of tree has leaves shaped like a chicken foot, a mitten, or an oblong shape
Sassafras
This gives the leaves their beautiful green color, and allows them to photosynthesize.
What is chlorophyl?
The tallest tree in the world.
What is a coast redwood?
The acronym is DBH, and can tell us how big around the tree is.
What is diameter at breast height?
A forest with frequent heavy rains. Tends to be in tropical or subtropical regions.
What is a rainforest?
this type of tree has many lobes that are rounded, and has an ashy colored, rugged bark
White oak