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vocabulary and more questions
100
Name the oldest known living tree on earth.
What is the bristlecone pine?
100
Explain how you know all roots are strong.
What is they can split rocks?
100
Name one of the tallest trees in the world.
What are sequoias?
100
Tell what season trees stop growing.
What is autumn or fall?
100
Identify the passage as fiction or nonfiction.
What is nonfiction?
200
Tell what you call the sugary water made in the leaves that is mixed with other tree juices.
What is sap?
200
Identify the seeds of an oak tree.
What are acorns?
200
Name a type of tree that does not have its needles change color in the winter.
What is a pine tree?
200

What does the word self-sufficient mean?

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300

What can you tell about an oak tree if its bark is rough and cracked?

a. it needs minerals

b. it is old

c. the tree is making sugar

b. The tree is old

300
Tell why people might count tree rings.
What is to tell how old the tree is?
300
Explain how animals help plants grow.
What is they carry pollen to other flowers?
300
Tell what season trees begin growing again.
What is spring?
300
Explain why the author wrote "A Tree Is Growing".
What is to explain how trees grow and change?
400
Tell what part of the tree makes its food.
What is the leaves?
400
Tell the job of the outer layer of bark.
What is it protects the tree?
400
Explain what is unusual about how trees grow.
What is they grow only at the top?
400
Explain how insects help trees.
What is they eat fallen leaves and make the soil better?
400

Define the word "dissolve." 

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