what are the eight parts of a tree?

Answer 1

Leaves (needles), buds, cones (flowers), branches (twigs), trunk (stem), roots, fruit, seeds

Answer 2

Leaves
Leaves are the food factories of a tree. Using energy from the sun, which they capture with a green pigment called "chlorophyll," leaves convert the carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugar (food) through the process of photosynthesis. The gases needed for and generated by photosynthesis enter and exit through tiny holes called "stomata" on the under surface of the leaves. Water vapor also exits through the stomata in the process of transpiration.

Trunk and Branches
The trunk provides support for branches, which in turn support the tree's leaves. The trunk and branches contain the tree's "pipes" - the tubes that transport water and nutrients to the leaves, and sugar from the leaves to the rest of the tree. They also contain the growing layer of the tree that makes the trunk, branches and roots of the tree thicker each year. Here's a look at a tree trunk from the inside to the outside and a description of what each layer does:

Heartwood
Heartwood forms the central core of the tree. It is made up of dense dead wood and provides the tree's strength.

Sapwood
Sapwood is also called the xylem (ZI-lum); it brings water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves. Older xylem cells become part of the heartwood.

Cambium
Cambium (KAM-bee-uhm) is a very thin layer of growing tissue which makes cells that become new xylem, phloem or cambium.

Phloem
Phloem (FLOW-um) also is called the inner bark. It carries sap (sugar and nutrients dissolved in water) from the leaves to the rest of the tree; at certain times of the year, phloem may also transport stored sugars from the roots up to the rest of the tree.

Bark
Bark protects the tree from injury caused by insects and other animals, by other plants, by disease, and by fire; bark characteristics vary from species to species (for example, it may be thin, thick, spongy, rough, smooth, covered with spines, and so on, depending on the type of tree).

Roots
A tree's roots help anchor the tree in the ground. They also absorb water and nutrients from the soil. Trees have lateral roots that spread out from the tree and cover a broad area. Many trees also have a taproot that grows straight into the ground. As a tree's taproot and lateral roots grow away from the tree, they branch into finer and finer roots called rootlets. The rootlets themselves are, in turn, covered by even finer root hairs. These root hairs absorb approximately 95 percent of the water and nutrients absorbed by the tree.

Answer 3

WOW

I'm still stuck on the eight parts...

All my life I thought a tree was three- it rhymes and answered my questions.


You know- leave part- root part- AND what's between!

Sorry gotta leaf.

Answer 4

I got: Crown'
Trunk,
Heartwood,
Cambium,
Xylem,
Phloem,
Bark, and
Roots.........

Answer 5

trunk, roots, branches, limbs, steams, twigs, leaves, bark, sap, top

How many did I get right?