tree identification practice

Process used by trees to produce their own food...

• Photosynthesis

• Transpiration

• Respiration

• Absorption

What is a petiole?

(pet-ee-ol)

• how leaves are arranged

• a bundle of pine needles

• a plant that can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere

• how a leaf is attached to a tree

• a fire resistant tree

What kind of tree?

• Poison Ivy

• American Holly

• Black Walnut

• Red Oak

Part of the trunk that carries water and nutrients up from the roots and to the leaves...

• Sapwood

• Heartwood

• Cambium

• Outer Bark

What is the layer of the tree at the very centre

• Heartwood

• Hardwood

• Pith

• Bith

What is the difference between a leaf and a leaflet?

• all trees can have leaflets

• they are the same thing

• leaflets are made of leaves

• compound trees have leaves made up of leaflets

What kind of tree?

• American Holly

• Poison Ivy

• Eastern Redbud

• Flowering Dogwood

• Black Locust

• Honey Locust

• Blue Ash

• Mimosa

• Silver Maple

• Pecan

• River Birch

• Bur Oak

What kind of tree?

• Silver Maple

• American Holly

• Sycamore

• Red Oak