Leaves
Leaf Me Alone
Hodgepodge
Key Features
Tree-mendous
100
When leaves grow directly across from one another.
What is opposite?
100
Conifers have these.
What are needles?
100

Type of key used to identify trees.

What is dichotomous?

100
Conifers with needles in bundles of two or five.
What are pines?
100
A tree that has broad leaves, rather than needles.
What is a broadleaf (deciduous) tree?
200

Quaking Aspens have this type of branching of leaves

What is alternate 

200
Entire or toothed, lobed.
What are leaf margins?
200
Groups of trees that have cones.
What are conifers?
200
A kind of tree that may have pointed or rounded lobes on the leaves.
What is oak?
200
Washingtons state tree.

What is the Western Hemlock?

300
Alternate.
What is the kind of branching where leaves or branches do not grow directly across from each other?
300
Oak trees have this margin type

What is an oak tree?

300
The mark left behind when a leaf falls.
What is a leaf scar?
300

A kind of tree with smooth unbroken bark.

What is a young red maple, or beech?

300
Nonliving part of the tree.
What is bark?
400
Oaks have this kind of branching.
What is alternate?
400
Ash, hickory, and locust trees have this kind of leaf.
What is compound?
400
This part of a leaf can be flat, round, or square.
What is the petiole?
400
A kind of tree with opposite branching and simple leaves.
What is maple?
400
This is the reproductive structure of a conifer.
What is a cone?
500

More than two leaves on a single stalk

What is a compound leaf

500
Teeth that point outwards and are rounded

What is toothed crenate?

500
Simple.
What is one blade (leaf) attached to a twig.
500
A tree with bark that peels horizontally in curly strips

What is a yellow birch?

500

One of the most important lumber species in the US.

What is the Douglas Fir.