A plant, bush, or tree has leaves for the whole year.
An eggplant
An evergreen plant
A sunflower
A deciduous tree
A ______ tree loses its leaves in autumn and grows new ones in the spring.
deciduous
dreaming
neverold
evergreen
Name some well-known evergreens that you know?
Pine, fir, and spruce. (These trees are easiest recognize by their leaves.)
What tree is it?
Pine tree
Maple tree
Durian tree
Oak tree
What tree is it?
Fir tree
Maple tree
Spruce tree
What tree is it?
Spruce tree
Pear tree
Peach tree
The thin, pointy things on the evergreen trees are actually their ______ . We usually call them needles.
roots
leaves
trunks
petals
Even though, needles don't look like the leaves on other trees, they have the same job- ________.
to catch snow
to catch fish
to catch sunlight
to catch bird poop
Trees use sunlight to make _____. And energy helps the tree grow.
energy
soil
water
milk
The thin needles we find on evergreens help keep the water inside the trees, for as long as it can through winter.
True
Needles on evergreens are covered with a thin layer of stuff that's kind of like _____.
wax
syrup
coke
sugar
The waxy layer covering the neddles helps trap water inside the needles, so the tree doesn't _________.
dry out
turn yellow
get rich
Cones are always big.
False (Cones can be big or small and even corloful.)
What is the cone's job?
To make the seeds that will someday grow into new trees.
The seeds are a tasty snack for animals like _____, ______, and ______.
squirrels, chipmunks, and birds
Evergreens that have cones also have a special name. This group of plants is called ______.
Ferns
Conifers
Mosses and liverworts
Flowering plants
