Test 2 (1.5-1.8)

Question 1

An attractive tree with frosty needles, often planted as an ornamental

Answer 1

blue spruce

Question 2

The smallest of all green plants

Answer 2

some algae

Question 3

The only conifers with bundles of needles

Answer 3

pines

Question 4

Fungi that feed on dead matter

Answer 4

saprophytes

Question 5

In the hot, dry climate of the southwestern states what type of pine grows?

Answer 5

Ponderose Pine

Question 6

A plant that has fronds and produces spores instead of seeds

Answer 6

fern

Question 7

The plant with a fruiting body

Answer 7

mushroom

Question 8

The fungus that converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide

Answer 8

yeast

Question 9

A fungus and an alga working together as one plant

Answer 9

lichen

Question 10

The green plants that have no true leaves, stems, or roots

Answer 10

mosses

Question 11

The roots of a fern

Answer 11

rhizoids

Question 12

Growth in a tree takes place in which layer, immediately under the bark

Answer 12

cambium layer

Question 13

What were create to live without chlorophyll

Answer 13

fungi

Question 14

Which type of tree has an attractive reddish wood with an oil that produces a pleasant fragrance?

Answer 14

cedar

Question 15

Scientists who study trees

Answer 15

dendrologists

Question 16

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

Answer 16

perennial

Question 17

A plant that lives for two years and then dies

Answer 17

biennial

Question 18

The largest kind of tree

Answer 18

giant sequoia

Question 19

The tallest kind of tree

Answer 19

California redwood

Question 20

Trees that lose their leaves in the fall

Answer 20

deciduous

Question 21

The age of a tree can be determined by counting what

Answer 21

annual rings

Question 22

A tall plant with a single woody stem

Answer 22

tree

Question 23

Single cells that some plants produce instead of seeds

Answer 23

spores

Question 24

Trees that bear cones instead of flowers

Answer 24

conifers

Question 25

Be able to identify the following kinds of tree and their characteristics

Answer 25

cedar, oak, willow, giant sequoia, pine, maple, hemlock, bald cypress, birch, fir, palm