Parts of Trees
The rough outer covering of a tree
What is bark?
Trees that keep their leaves year round
What are evergreen?
A root that goes deep into the ground and has secondary roots branching off the main root
What is a taproot?
The largest forest region
What is the northern forest?
What is the science of managing and studying forests
What is forestry?
The main stem of a tree
What is the trunk?
Spiny trees especially designed for life in the desert
What are cacti?
Type of root grows from a plant's stem, branches, leaves or mature woody roots
What is an adventitious root?
The most heavily managed forest region
What is the southern forest?
The process of removing trees for human use
What is tree harvesting?
The top layer of interlaced leaves
What the canopy?
Type of gymnosperm that has no branches and frond-like leaves
What is a cycad?
Forms at the base of a petiole to sever a leaf from a branch
What is an abscission layer?
Contains the greatest variety of tree species
What is the central broadleaf forest?
Method of tree harvesting that involves removing all but a few selected trees
What is the seed-tree method?
The hard, inactive, dead wood of a tree
What is the heartwood?
A tree that loses its leaves in the fall and remains bare in the winter
A deciduous tree?
Structures on a stem between two leaves or two places where leaves once grew
What is an internode?
Forest that produces the largest percentage of wood and paper products
What is the Pacific coast forest?
The system of forest management that causes the forest to grow more high quality trees that mature faster than normal
What is sustained yield management?
The ring of growth cells that separates a tree''s bark from the woody tissues
What is vascular cambium?
The most common gymnosperms
What are conifers?
Once a leaf falls offf, all that remains is this
What is a leaf scar?
Extends from Canada to Mexico
What is the Rocky Mountain forest?
Any system or object that absorbs carbon dioxide from the environment
What is a carbon sink?