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Trees SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Forests p.109
▸ ▸ Fruit and seeds
A tree is a plant with a woody stem called a trunk. p.115
Trees are found all over the world, except in ▸ ▸ Habitats p.126
Antarctica. The two main types of tree are ▸ ▸ Materials p.157

deciduous and evergreen. ▸ ▸ Photosynthesis
p.191

▸ ▸ Plants p.194

Deciduous trees
These trees have leaves
that die and drop off in the
autumn. In the spring, their
leaves grow back again.

Leaves
Leaves make the food
a tree needs to grow.
They come in all
shapes and sizes
depending on the
type of tree.

Bark
The tree trunk is
covered in bark, a
rough covering that
protects the tree.

Oak tree
Needles
Needles are leaves that Tree rings
are curled up into a tough You can tell how
pointed shape. old a tree is by
counting the rings
Evergreen trees in its trunk. Each
ring shows a year
These trees keep their leaves all in the tree’s life.
year round. They have flat, hard
Sicilian fir leaves called needles or scales.
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