Woody Pulp Fiction
"Dendro" in dendrochronolgy means this?
What is tree?
Special underground stems that are used for food storage.
What are tubers?
Packages of xylem, phloem, and vascular cambium in a herbaceous dicot.
What are vascular bundles?
The last bud found on a stem
What is the Terminal bud?
The instrument used to get a core sample of a tree
What is an increment borer?
Have relatively long internodes and are found along the ground. Roots are put down at nodes and stems go up.
What are stolons?
The part of the stem found at the end of stems and buds where the cells are actively dividing and differentiating
What is the apical meristem?
Three things that can emerge from a nod
What are stems, leaves, and flowers (and/or roots)?
What types of trees to scientists look for to core, sample?
cone shaped stems surrounded by many scale-like leaves that are modified for food storage
What are bulbs?
The outer layer of a woody plant
What is bark or cork?
The mark on a stem where a leave was attached
What are leave scars?
Sapwood is "__________________" and Heartwood is "______________"
What is living and dead?
These size rings would indicate poor growing conditions
what is small or thin?
flattened stems that are leaf-like and can photosynthesis.
What are cladophylls?
tissue that is responsible for the production of cork cells
What is cork cambium
What is water loss?
A dry, cold year would probably produce rings that are _________________ than a warm, wet year in a tree
What is thinner?
That dark part of a tree ring is from what part of the growing season?
What is late or fall
An underground stem produces adventitious roots and new stems at nodes.
What are rhizomes?
The main stem of woody dicot from which all other stems or twigs origonate.
What is the trunk?
a twig's age is determined by this
What is counting the number of bud scale scars?