- Fact 2 - Trees help prevent
erosion, provide building materials and food from their fruits
and nuts
- Fact 3 - 33% of America is covered
by forests with trees and
plants
- Fact 4 - Trees keep our air supply
fresh by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen
- Fact 5 - Trees improve water
quality by slowing and filtering rain water
- Fact 6 - Trees and other plants
make their food through a process called photosynthesis
- Fact 7 - The world's tallest tree
is a coast redwood in California, measuring more than 360 ft or
110 m.
- Fact 8 - world's oldest tree is
4,600 year old Bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains
in America and is nicknamed "Methuselah
- Fact 9 - The averaged size tree can
provide enough wood to make 170,000 pencils
- Fact 10 - Bamboo, although often
tree like, is actually not a species of tree
- Fact 11 - The two main types of
trees are broadleaf trees and coniferous trees
- Fact 12 - Broadleaf trees include
maples, oaks, elms and aspens
- Fact 13 - Coniferous trees include
pines and spruce
- Fact 14 - The lightest wood with
the greatest strength comes from the balsa tree
- Fact 15 - Dendrochronology is the
science of calculating a tree's age by its rings
- Fact 16 - The parts of a tree are
the leaves and needles, buds, cones and flowers, branches and
twigs, trunk or stem and roots
- Fact 17 - One large tree can
provide a day’s oxygen for up to four people
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