2. TREE ID WORKBOOK QUESTIONS

Question 1

What is the classification of living organisms, including plants, called?

Answer 1

Taxonomy

Question 2

List the levels of classification in order.

Answer 2

Kingdom
Phylum (Division for plants)
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Specific Epithet

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Question 3

What are vascular plants whose seeds are covered (by an ovary) called?

Answer 3

Angiosperms

Question 4

What are vascular plants with ‘naked seeds’ called?

Answer 4

Gymnosperms

Question 5

What is the naming of plants called?

Answer 5

Nomenclature

Question 6

What group do grasses, bananas, and palms belong to, and how many seed leaves do they have?

Answer 6

Monocots, one seed leaf

Question 7

Name a tree with palmately compound leaves.

Answer 7

Buckeye or Horse Chestnut

Question 8

Name a tree with pinnately compound leaves.

Answer 8

Ash or Walnut

Question 9

A compound leaf with multiple leaflets will have how many buds?

Answer 9

One bud

Question 10

Give an example of a tree species with more than one common name.

Answer 10

Carpinus caroliniana

Question 11

In Acer saccharum, what does Acer identify?

Answer 11

Genus

Question 12

In Acer saccharum, what does saccharum identify?

Answer 12

Specific epithet

Question 13

How can species be further subdivided?

Answer 13

Subspecies, variety, forma, and/or cultivars

Question 14

What is a cultivated variety called?

Answer 14

Cultivar

Question 15

When two leaves or buds are located at the same node on a twig, what is this arrangement called?

Answer 15

Opposite

Question 16

Which is the correctly written botanical name?

Answer 16

Quercus rubra

Question 17

Which genus of trees usually does NOT have opposite leaf arrangement?

Answer 17

Quercus (oaks)

Question 18

Which conifers have needles in bundles?

Answer 18

Pines

Question 19

How does Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) differ from balsam fir (Abies balsamea)?

Answer 19

They are not in the same genus

Question 20

Naturally occurring, closely related group within a species that has some distinctly different characteristics

Answer 20

Sub-species

Question 21

Subdivision of a species that has a trait distinctly different from the other plants within the species and naturally breeds true to that trait.

Answer 21

Variety

Question 22

Similar to a subspecies, but the differences are less obvious and more sporadic. These plants may have slightly different levels of cold hardiness or unique flower colours that randomly appear.

Answer 22

Form

Question 23

Angiosperms include several major groups of plants, the largest being __________ & _________

Answer 23

Eudicotyldons (eudicots)
Monocotyledons (monocots)

Question 24

Plant with tricolplate (three-grooved) pollen grains and two cotyldeons in its embyro.

Answer 24

Eudicotyldons

Question 25

Plant with an embryo that has one single seed leaf (cotyledon). Palms and grasses.

Answer 25

Monocotyledons

Question 26

Pines have needles usually bundled in clusters of?

Answer 26

two, three or five

Question 27

Trees with opposite leaf arrangement fall into four genera represented by the memory device.

Answer 27

MAD Horse Maple, ASH, DOGWOOD AND HORSECHESTNUT

Question 28

Spruce starts with "s" which helps us to remember that these plants have needles that are?

Answer 28

Short Sharp Single Square

Question 29

Central core of a stem. Often lighter in colour than surrounding tissue.

Answer 29

Pith

Question 30

The species is composed of the _____ and _______ ________

Answer 30

Genus/specific epithet

Question 31

If the specific epithet is not known, "__ " will follow the genus if it is only one species.

Answer 31

"sp"

Question 32

The most common leaf arrangement, they have a single leaf at each node. In this arrangement, the leaves are not directly across from each other.

Answer 32

Alternate