What is a tree?

A tall plant with a single woody stem

What is the name of the structure at the tip of a stem that produces new growth?

A bud

What tree group has mainly flower-bearing and seed-producing plants?

Broadleaf

What is the process of producing maple syrup and sugar?

Sugaring

What tree family is cone-bearing?

Conifers

Name the tree disease that is caused by a fungus and is mostly spread by beetles.

Dutch elm

What is the name of the large spore-forming structure of a mushroom?

Fruiting body

The world's smallest green plants belong to what group of plants?

Algae

What do we call the scientists who study trees?

Denderologists

What is the name of the largest living sequoia?

General Sherman Tree

What is the layer of the tree's trunk where new growth of bark and wood takes place?

Cambium Layer

What is the term for a tree that keeps its leaves all year round?

Evergreen

What do we call an organism that attaches itself to another organism for nourishment?

Parasite

What type of plant is actually a combination of fungi and algae?

Lichen

What are the tallest living trees in the world?

California Redwoods

What prevents nourishment from reaching the roots of a tree, eventually causing it to die?

Girdling

A plant that has fronds and produces spores instead of seeds

Fern

The roots of ferns are called?

Rhizoids

What tree is a chief American source of tannin and cones hang down from the tips of the branches?

Hemlock

What tree grows in swamps and lagoons of the South and root knees stick out of the water?

Bald Cypress

Fungi that feed on dead matter is called a?

Saprophytes

Yeast is a _?_ that converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

Fungus

What green plant has no true leaves, stems, or roots and are soft and spongy

Mosses

You can determine the age of a tree by counting __?__

Annual Growth Rings

What trees smooth, white, papery bark peels of in thin layers?

Birch