Arbor Day
Tree Huggers
A World Without Trees
"Forest" Gump
Famous Trees
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The meaning of the Latin word Arbor.
What is "Tree"?
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The method of determining the age of a tree.
What is counting its rings?
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A critical building block of human life that is crippled without trees.
What is Oxygen?
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The largest tropical rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
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Beneath a tree (which still grows today!) this scientist discovered the laws of gravity.
Who is Sir Issac Newton?
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When Arbor Day is celebrated in the United States.
What is the last Friday of April?
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The oldest tree type in the world.
What is the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine?
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With the disappearance of forests, this percentage of animal and plant species will lose their home.
What is 80%?
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Also known as a boreal forest, this biome is characterized by trees such as pines, spruces and larches.
What is a Taiga?
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Played by Vin Diesel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this tree creature is only capable of speaking one thing: an introduction of his name.
Who is Groot?
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The official start of Arbor Day as a national holiday.
What is 1970?
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The name of the underground network that connects fungi and trees in a beneficial symbiosis.
What is the "Wood Wide Web"?
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The air will feel thicker and far less healthy in a world without trees, which absorb more than 50 million metric tons of _____ each year.
What is carbon?
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An ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.
What is a forest?
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In 1912, a gift of 3000 of this type of tree was delivered to the US as a symbol of peace. Their location is closer than you think.
What is the Japanese Cherry Tree?
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The first US President to acknowledge Arbor Day.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
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The estimated number of trees on the planet (in trillions).
What is 3.04 Trillion trees?
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The real-life term for removal of forested areas worldwide.
What is deforestation?
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This weather phenomena can be triggered by certain forests around the world.
What is rain?
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Treebeard, the famous tree like creature from the Lord of the Rings series, is described as "resembling" these two types of trees.
What are beech and oak?
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The birthplace of Arbor Day.
What is Nebraska City, Nebraska?
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The estimated number of trees needed to offset the annual emissions of one human being.
What is 450 trees?
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Without trees in urban areas, there is little to no shade, which can increase the temperature by this much.
What is 10 degrees?
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Forests near our homes is responsible for lowering the cost of this monthly expense by just over 7% annually.
What is your Utility bill?
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Representing the sacrifice parents make for their children, this tree created by Shel Silverstein provides for a young man throughout his life's journey.
What is the Giving Tree?
