Parts of a Tree | Trees and the Forest | The Fire Triangle | Hubble | Aurora Borealis |
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What is the bark?
This part of the tree protects it from fire, injury, and disease.
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What is the crown?
All of the tree tops make up this part of the forest.
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What is oxygen?
The most plentiful resource that a fire needs to keep going.
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What is 10 years?
The amount of years it took to build Hubble.
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What are Solar Flares?
The phenomena that happens at the sun that causes The Northern Lights.
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What is the sapwood?
The part of a tree that carries water throughout it.
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What is the duff?
Is made up of dead leaves, twigs, logs, needles, and roots.
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What is fuel?
Paper, trees, cloth, gas, butane, propane, leaves, grass, and oils are all examples of this.
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What is 10.000 people?
The amount of people that worked to build Hubble.
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What is a magnetic field?
Protects the earth from objects in space.
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What is the phloem?
The part of the tree that carries sap throughout it.
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What are needles?
Produces sap and food for coniferous trees.
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What is heat?
After oxygen and fuel, fires have to have this to stay going.
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What is a warped lens or mirror?
The problem with Hubble when it was released in space.
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What is the North and South Poles.
The two points on Earth where Auroras happen most frequently.
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What is the pith or heartwood?
The part of the tree that supports it.
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What is a growing root?
Can support the weight of seven elephants.
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What is engines, motors, friction, sparks, electricity, lightning, sun, fire, or embers?
An example of heat.
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What is Sirius?
The closest star to Earth.
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What are gases?
What particles from the sun mix with in our atmosphere to make colors.
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What is the cambium?
The part of the tree that creates new sapwood and phloem.
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What is 2000 lbs?
Is the amount of water a full grown tree can absorb in a single day.
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What is oxygen?
The hardest part of the triangle to restrict.
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What is red?
The color of a cool, young star.
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What is electricity?
Causes the particles from the sun to react with the particles on Earth.
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