Dendrochronology Review

What does dendrochronology do?

• Tell us how trees provide evidence about past climate

• Tell us how trees are made

• Tell us how trees predict the weather

Trees growing in environments with distinct growing seasons produce

• leaves

• flowers

• annual growth rings

• false growth rings

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True/False: Tree ring growth varies throughout the year

• True

• False

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In which season do tree rings have more growth?

• winter

• late summer/fall

• all the time

• spring/early summer

What do tree rings tell us about the tree?

• how the tree is dying

• what animals live in the tree

• how old the tree is

What happens to trees in the winter?

• they are dormant

• they die

• they freeze

• they fall over

True/False: The thickness of the rings is affected by weather conditions during that growing year.

• True

• False

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What is the pith?

• the last ring of the tree cookie

• the name of the bark

• a type of tree

• The very center and first tree ring in a tree cookie

An annual growth ring (one year’s growth) is made up of what?

• 3 dark rings together

• 2 light rings together

• 1 light and 1 dark ring together

If the pith is off center, what can that tell us about how the tree grew?

• it grew on a flat surface

• it grew underwater

• it grew on a slope

• it grew very slow

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