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Leaf Anatomy
Tree Cookies
Deciduous VS. Coniferous
Tree Anatomy
Levels of the forest
100
The Apex is the tip.
What is the farthest point from the stem, or the tip?
100
You count the rings on the cookie.
What is a sign of how old the tree is?
100
The type of tree that has that type of leaf is coniferous.
What is the type of tree that needles belong to?
100
That section of the trunk protects the tree from damage.
What is the purpose of outer bark?
100
The canopy is the highest part of the forest.
What is the top forest level?
200
The Petiole is the scientific term for the stem.
What is the scientific term for the stem connecting the leaf to the branch?
200
You will see holes bored and blue stain fungi on the edges.
What is the way to tell if there's infestation?
200
Both types produce oxygen, and supply wood. They also get cut down in huge numbers.
What is something coniferous and deciduous trees have in common?
200
Phloem is another term and what is does is it carries food from the leaves to the tree.
What is another term for inner bark (and what does it do)?
200
The crown is the highest point on the tree.
What is the tree part at the canopy?
300
There is only one type of vein on a leaf (not counting midrib).
What is the name for the left and right veins?
300
Competition has short rings early, while drought can have rings narrow anywhere.
What is the way to tell competition from drought?
300
Coniferous trees end up living all the way to the tree line.
What is the tree type that lives straight to the tree line?
300
The order would be, Heartwood, cambium, phloem, bark, in to out.
What is the order of these in to out: Heartwood, bark, phloem, cambium?
300
This part collects sugars and chlorophyll, houses animals, and shades tree.
What is the purpose of the crown?
400
The part that continues from the petiole (stem) to the apex (tip).
What is the midrib?
400
A branch root is more narrow than wide, and a fire scar takes more wide than narrow.
What is the way to tell the difference between a fire scar and a branch root?
400
These leaves can be called pines by mistake, which is actually a tree name.
What is the way that people incorrectly call coniferous leaves?
400
The Xylem is another word and what it does is it transport food all over the tree.
What is another word for sapwood (and what does it mean)?
400
Shrubs can go all the way up to the 2nd highest floor.
What is the level at which shrubs grow?
500
The midrib is in the centre, while the veins are on the sides of the leaf.
What is the difference between the midrib and the vein?
500
An example would be a Wood Boring Beetle.
What is the name of a beetle that infests wood?
500
The larch, unusually, loses it's needles during autumn despite it being coniferous.
What is a coniferous tree that loses it's leaves in the fall?
500
The xylem (sapwood) is the layer that dies off to form the tree core.
What is the layer that dies to form the heartwood?
500
The alternate term for these levels is floor and subfloor compared to understory and forest floor.
What is the term that people use in the US for the bottom 2 levels?