Importance of Trees
This is a characteristic of trees that influences house prices.
What is natural shade?
This is the substance you use to cover a seed after placing it in the ground.
What is soil?
A score derived from tree canopy cover, climate, and demographic data.
What is a Tree Equity Score?
All street trees should ideally be planted about this many feet apart to allot for canopy width.
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Anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases
What is a carbon sink?
Trees do this to help control the water cycle.
What is absorb it into their roots?
Before planting, you should remove these three things from the area.
What are weeds, grass, and rocks?
The three factors that directly relate to a Tree Equity Score.
What is population size, poverty rates, and ethnic populations?
Street trees should be planted this many feet from both the street and sidewalks.
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Organisms that help regulate water cycles, protect soil, and act as massive carbon sinks.
What are trees?
This is how trees act as air purifiers.
What is through absorbing dust and pollen through leaves and bark?
After planting a seed, this should be added to help it begin growing.
What is water?
The Tree Equity Score of Piscataway.
What is 89?
True or False: You should only plant one species of tree down a street.
What is false?
These areas contain trees near bodies of water and help act as environmental buffer zones
What are riparian zones?
These are three benefits of trees.
What are ecosystem holders, one of the biggest sources of oxygen, and erosion preventers?
Before planting, you should make sure the soil is healthy and can do this with water.
What is drain water well?
The Tree Equity Score of Paterson, NJ.
What is 80?
True or False: Trees should be planted under power lines.
What is false?
As trees grow, they help slow climate change by storing this element in their tissues.
What is carbon?
The controlling of erosion helps lessen the disastrous effects of this.
What are landslides and floods?
After the seed begins growing, this protective structure can be installed to keep animals away.
What is a wire fence?
The Tree Equity Score of Newark, NJ.
What is 82?
Planting trees far enough from the street and sidewalks prevents ______ ______ from allowing tree roots to destroy the concrete.
What is Root cracking?
These moist carbon sinks reduce wildfire risk, create habitats for animals, trap sediments and runoff, and absorb heavy rain like sponges.
What are forest floors?