1. Mrs. Engbrecht 7th Grade Red Team
Tree Notes
Mrs. Engbrecht
7th Grade Red Team

2. There are 2 types of trees
What is the major difference between trees in the back yard of the school?

3. 2 Types of Trees Coniferous Deciduous Keeps leaves all year
Looses leaves in the fall

4. Parts of Conifer Leaf Leaf Sheath Twig Green needle part
Papery covering
Holds needles together
Twig
Small part of the branch

5. Forms of the leaf
Needle like leaves
Scale like
Awl like

6. 2 Types of Deciduous Trees
Gymnosperm
No seed cover
Angiosperm
Has seed cover

7. Deciduous Leaf Parts
Veins
Midrib vein
Down the middle
Petiole
Stem

8. Deciduous Leaf Parts Blade Node Twig Main green part
Contains chloroplasts
Node
Where leaf attaches
Twig

9. Final Thought
Take the names of trees that you know and try to put them in to the two categories that you now know.

10. Acronym
Write down what you think this word means.

11. BASS V LEGS Bark description (color and texture on twigs)
Alternate around/alternate beside/opposite/whorled
Simple/pinnate/double pinnate/palmate
Shape of tree (without leaves)
Veins (pinnate/palmate/parallel)
Lobed/unlobed blades
Edge (smooth – coarse/finely toothed)
General leaf size (width and length of one blade)
Seeds (describe and rub/draw)

12. Differences
Look at your list of differences and see if you came up with some of the same answers as the BASS V LEGS.

13. Question of the day
How do plants move food and nutrients throughout the whole plant?

14. Veins
Pinnate
Parallel
Palmate

15. Leaf Edges
Smooth
Toothed / serrated

16. Leaf Differences
Look at this picture. Is it one leaf or more than one?

17. Types of Leaves
Simple
One petiole and one blade

18. Types of Leaves Pinnately compound Double pinnately compound
Palmately compound

19. Lobed/Unlobed
Lobed Unlobed

20. Which picture shows arrangement?

21. Alternate
One leaf at each node
Around or
Beside

22. Opposite
Two leaves at each node

23. Whorled
More than two leaves which come out of each node