Abeka 6th grade Science Test 2

Hemlock

A cheif American source of tannin

Saprophytes

Is fungi that feed on dead matter

Cedar

The tree that has an attractive reddish wood with an oil that produces a pleasant fragrance North American trees members of the Cypress family

Birch

The tree was smooth white paper you park the peels off and thin layers

Deciduous

Trees lose their leaves in the fall

Conifers

Trees that their cones instead of flowers

palm

evergreen but not a conifer/moncot/leaves are called fonds

maple

good shade trees with especially colorful fall leaves/good source of sugar and syrup

Dendrologist

Scientists who study trees

Mosses

The green plants that have no truly of Stems or roots

pine

the trees of one variety are the oldest living things /needles grow in bundles

Bald cypress

A tree that grows and swamps and lagoons of the south with root knees sticking out of the water

Willow

A tree that grows best Nearwater and has long been leaves and drooping branches

Fir

A tree whose cones stick straight up from the tops of the branches

Oak

A tree with thick wide spreading branches and acorns

Rhizoids

The roots of a fern

Algae

The smallest of all green plants

California redwood

The tallest kind of tree

Blue Spruce

What is an attractive tree with frosty needles often planted as an ornamental

Pines

What is the only conifer with bundles of needles

Pinyon pine

What tree grows in the hot dry climate of the southwestern states

Yeast

A fungus that converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. What makes grandmas rolls rise. a single-celled fungi

Perennial

A plant that does not die after one season of growth but continues to live and grow for many seasons

Fern

A plant that has fronds and produces spores instead of seeds

Biennial

A plant that lives for 2 years and then dies

Fungi

A plant that was created to live without chlorophyll

Tree

A plant with a single woody stem

Lichen

An association between an algae and a fungus that is symbiotic and mutualistic in nature

Annual rings

How to determine the age of a tree

Spores

Single cells that some plants produce instead of seeds

Cambium

The Layer immediately under the bark where the growth of the tree takes place

Giant Sequoia

The largest kind of tree

Mushroom

The plant with the fruiting body