Hello,
This month's quiz is all about trees.
This month's quiz is all about trees.
Questions:
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What is the name of the network that trees use to communicate?
a) the mycorrhizal network
b) the mythcorhinia network
c) the symbocommunial network -
How much of the
amazon rainforest
has been lost due to deforestation in the last 50 years?
a) 12%
b) 17%
c) 23% - True or False? Over 75% of land-based species are found in forests?
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How much carbon do tropical forest contain?
a) 230 gigatons
b) 280 gigatons
c) 330 gigatons -
In California, there is a rather strange tree that has survived 13 000
years by cloning itself. What species?
a) Pin oak
;b) English oak
c) Palmer's oak - True or False? The oldest surviving tree species, Gingko trees, have been around since just after the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs struck.
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Where do acacia trees grow?
a) cold and harsh environment around the Arctic
b) deserts and tropical grasslands
c) European mountain ranges - True or False? Sequoia trees can grow as tall as a 26 storey building.
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How do african baobabs survive through droughts?
a) they are small and don't need much water
b) they normally die from lack of water
c) they store water in their trunks -
Where did the dragon's blood tree get its name?
a) its sap is red
b) a myth says that it grew out of a pool of dragon's blood
c) its bark is red
We hope you learned a bit about the trees that we just take for granted.
Your Green World Blog Teamš
(answers below)
Answers:
- a) the mycorrhizal network
- b) 17%
- True
- a) 230 gigatons
- c) Palmer's oak
- False, it's been around since before the meteor struck
- b) deserts and tropical grasslands
- True
- c) they store water in their trunks
- a) its sap is red
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