{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-trees-and-leaves",
 "id": "fun-trees-and-leaves",
 "title": "Trees and Leaves",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Plants",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Common trees and how to tell them by leaves, bark and fruit.",
 "tags": [
  "trees",
  "leaves",
  "nature"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Tree",
 "backLabel": "How to spot it",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Oak",
   "Lobed leaves and acorns"
  ],
  [
   "Maple",
   "Leaves with pointed lobes, winged seeds, and sweet sap"
  ],
  [
   "Pine",
   "Needles in bundles, cones"
  ],
  [
   "Spruce",
   "Short stiff single needles, hanging cones"
  ],
  [
   "Fir",
   "Flat soft needles; popular Christmas trees"
  ],
  [
   "Birch",
   "White papery bark that peels"
  ],
  [
   "Aspen",
   "Round leaves that shimmer and tremble in the wind"
  ],
  [
   "Elm",
   "Lopsided toothed leaves, vase shape"
  ],
  [
   "Willow",
   "Long narrow leaves and drooping branches near water"
  ],
  [
   "Cottonwood",
   "Triangular leaves and fluffy seeds"
  ],
  [
   "Sycamore",
   "Peeling patchy bark and large leaves"
  ],
  [
   "Beech",
   "Smooth gray bark and oval toothed leaves"
  ],
  [
   "Hickory",
   "Compound leaves and hard nuts"
  ],
  [
   "Walnut",
   "Long compound leaves and round nuts in green husks"
  ],
  [
   "Cedar",
   "Scale-like leaves and fragrant wood"
  ],
  [
   "Redwood",
   "The tallest trees, on the California coast"
  ],
  [
   "Sequoia",
   "The giant sequoia is the biggest tree by volume"
  ],
  [
   "Cypress",
   "Some grow knobby 'knees' in swamps"
  ],
  [
   "Palm",
   "Big fronds and no real branches"
  ],
  [
   "Apple tree",
   "Pink-white blossoms in spring and apples in fall"
  ],
  [
   "Cherry tree",
   "Pink blossoms and small red fruit"
  ],
  [
   "Orange tree",
   "Evergreen with shiny leaves and white fragrant flowers"
  ],
  [
   "Ginkgo",
   "Fan-shaped leaves; an ancient kind of tree"
  ],
  [
   "Sweetgum",
   "Star-shaped leaves and spiky balls"
  ],
  [
   "Tulip tree",
   "Leaves with a notched end and tulip-like flowers"
  ],
  [
   "Dogwood",
   "Showy white or pink flower bracts in spring"
  ],
  [
   "Magnolia",
   "Big creamy flowers and glossy leaves"
  ],
  [
   "Mulberry",
   "Berries that look like blackberries"
  ],
  [
   "Hawthorn",
   "Thorny small tree with red berries"
  ],
  [
   "Black locust",
   "Rows of small leaves and thorns"
  ],
  [
   "Evergreen",
   "A tree that stays green all year"
  ],
  [
   "Deciduous",
   "A tree that drops its leaves in the fall"
  ],
  [
   "Conifer",
   "A tree that bears cones"
  ],
  [
   "Broadleaf",
   "A tree with wide, flat leaves"
  ],
  [
   "Photosynthesis",
   "How leaves make food from sunlight, water and air"
  ],
  [
   "Chlorophyll",
   "The green stuff in leaves that catches sunlight"
  ],
  [
   "Why leaves change color in fall",
   "Chlorophyll fades, showing yellows and oranges that were hidden"
  ],
  [
   "Tree rings",
   "Each ring is about one year of growth"
  ],
  [
   "Bark",
   "Protective outer covering of a tree"
  ],
  [
   "Roots",
   "Hold the tree and drink water from soil"
  ],
  [
   "Trunk",
   "The main stem that holds up the tree"
  ],
  [
   "Canopy",
   "The top layer of leaves in a forest"
  ],
  [
   "Sap",
   "Liquid that carries food and water inside a tree"
  ],
  [
   "Maple syrup",
   "Made by boiling maple sap"
  ],
  [
   "Acorn",
   "The nut of an oak tree"
  ],
  [
   "Pinecone",
   "Where pine seeds grow"
  ],
  [
   "Samara",
   "A winged seed, like a maple 'helicopter'"
  ],
  [
   "Simple leaf",
   "A leaf with one blade"
  ],
  [
   "Compound leaf",
   "A leaf split into many small leaflets"
  ],
  [
   "Needle leaf",
   "A thin, needle-shaped leaf"
  ],
  [
   "Arborist",
   "A person who cares for trees"
  ],
  [
   "Forester",
   "A person who manages forests"
  ],
  [
   "Arbor Day",
   "A holiday for planting trees"
  ],
  [
   "Oldest living trees",
   "Bristlecone pines live thousands of years"
  ],
  [
   "Banyan",
   "A tree whose branches grow roots down to the ground"
  ],
  [
   "Baobab",
   "African tree with a very thick trunk, nicknamed the upside-down tree"
  ],
  [
   "Mangrove",
   "Tree with roots standing in salty water"
  ],
  [
   "Rubber tree",
   "A tree whose sap is used to make rubber"
  ],
  [
   "Cork oak",
   "Oak whose bark is used for corks"
  ],
  [
   "Eucalyptus",
   "Tree whose leaves koalas eat"
  ],
  [
   "Coconut palm",
   "Palm that grows coconuts"
  ],
  [
   "Poison ivy",
   "A vine, not a tree: 'leaves of three, let it be'"
  ]
 ]
}