Test 2 Review
Across
- 3. The fungus that converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide
- 6. The smallest of all green plants
- 11. The largest kind of tree
- 15. especially thick wide-spreading branches - acorns
- 18. The largest algae, often growing to 200ft
- 19. A plant that has fronds and produces spores instead of seeds
- 20. A tall plant with a single woody stem
- 21. The plant with a fruiting body
- 23. A fungus and an algae working together as one plant
- 24. Good shade trees with especially colorful fall leaves - good source of sugar and syrup
- 25. The green plants that have no true leaves, stems, or roots
- 26. Fungi that feed on dead matter
- 27. An attractive tree with frosty needles, often planted as an ornamental.
- 28. the trees of one variety are the oldest living things - needles grow in bundles
- 30. grows best near water - long, thin leaves and drooping branches give a mournful appearance to many varieties - poplars belong to this group
- 33. Removing a ring of bark from a tree trunk
- 36. A plant that does not die after one season of growth but continues to grow and live for many seasons
- 37. The age of a tree can be determined by counting its _____.
- 38. Fungi that feed on living matter
Down
- 1. smooth white papery bark- Indians made wigwams and canoes from the bark
- 2. Growth in tree takes place in the _____ layer immediately under the bark.
- 4. grows in swamps and lagoons of the South - root knees stick out of the water
- 5. has an attractive reddish wood with an oil that produces a pleasant fragrance.
- 7. The roots of ferns are called
- 8. Scientists who study trees
- 9. The tallest kind of tree
- 10. Grows in the hot, dry climate of the southwestern states
- 12. evergreen but not conifer - monocot - leaves are called fronds
- 13. North American trees of this name are members of the cypress family - reddish wood contains a fragrant, moth-repellant oil
- 14. trees that bear cones instead of flowers
- 16. Trees that lose their leaves in the fall
- 17. chief American source for tannin - cones hang down from the tips of the branches
- 22. Single cells that some plants produce instead of seeds
- 27. A plant that lives for two years and then dies
- 29. created to live without chlorophyll.
- 31. cones fall apart on the tree - needles usually blunt and soft- cones stick straight up from branches -
- 32. The part of large algae that takes the place of roots and anchors it to the ocean floor
- 34. Sequoia The largest of all trees
- 35. The only conifers with bundles of needles