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
