what is the difference between an evergreen tree and a deciduous tree?
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An evergreen tree stays green all year round (hence the name).  Pine trees are considered evergreen trees.  \nA deciduous tree is a tree that turns colors in the fall and loses all of its leaves like most trees do.  Most trees are deciduous trees, like oak and maple.
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Temperate Forest.  I'm 100% sure about this, because I LIVE THERE!\n\nPlease vote for the best answer!
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Similar:\n  - the plants roots in both of them are shallow\n  - about the same amount of rain per year\n\nDifferent:\n  - tundra has permafrost\n  - tundra is located more north and desserts are in the middle \n     and south
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Yes, deciduous trees like oaks and maples will lose their leaves in winter, even if the winter season is very, very short. Palm trees keep their leaves year round, so it could be considered an evergreen too even if it's not a pine or cedar.
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Conifers aka pine trees.
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The leaves on any tree/plant work mainly as the energy center to enhance the food supply of the plant.  Photosynthesis is the primary action within the leaves, not the storage of water.  The roots, and the trunk of the tree maintain the water.\n\nSo when a tree looses it's leaves it simply maintains it's primary surface, ie trunk and branches, by storing the water within the lower roots, and within the innermost section of the trunk.
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they stabilize dust, control erosion, entrap air polluting gases, conserving water and harboring wildlife. Climate control is obtained by moderating the effects of sun, wind, and rain. Radiant energy from the sun is absorbed or deflected by leaves on deciduous trees in the summer and is filtered by their branches in winter. We are cooler when we stand in the shade of trees and are not exposed to direct sunlight. In winter, we value the sun's radiant energy; Wind speed and direction can be affected by trees.\n\nThere are many and many more , hope i could cover the gist.
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hardwood: A description applied to woods from deciduous broad-leafed trees (Angiosperms). The term has no reference to the actual hardness of the wood.\n\nsoftwood: any tree in the gymnosperm group, including pines, hemlocks, larches, spruces, firs, and junipers. Softwoods often are called conifers although some, such as junipers and yews do not produce cones.\n\nSo the terms have nothing to do with actual hardness. Although softwoods are generally softer than hardwoods, there is no real cutoff for hardness between the two. For example, balsa is technically a hardwood, although it is one of the softest woods in the world.
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Leaves have sugars, phytochemicals, and chlorophyll. The chlorophyll's color masks everything else, until the tree stops producing in the fall. Then the other compounds can shine. Different trees have different amounts of these "background" compounds, which are also influenced by sunlight and temperature; that's why the cold clear days in the northeast US help the trees give a good show.
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pines tress are not deciduous they are coniferous just to correct the other person, all the other answers about losing leavings in winter are correct.
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1. Remember trees need carbon dioxide and turn them to oxygen? less trees means more carbon dioxide... which means global warming (CO2 is also called the greenhouse gas.)\n2. Trees need water... less trees means more water flowing down when it rains. also, soil erosion is an issue.
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Well, you know that a tree's leaves turn brown in the winter. There is a reason for that. What makes a tree's leaves green is chlorophyll. All during spring and summer a tree is flooding it's branches and leaves with chlorophyll and the combination of sunshine and rain creates photosynthesis. This creates more chlorophyll. \n    During the winter months a tree stops sending chlorophyll to the branches and instead stores it and lives on it all winter until spring.
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Trees grow b/c of something inside it called the apical meristem. Hormones released here cause it to grow.\n\nTrees grow from the top. The bottom of the tree does not grow upwards. It stays in the same place. The tree gets wider & grows from the tips outward & upward.\n\nI have found a really good in depth resource for you to use. It has lots of nice diagrams as well.
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One main advantage is the ability of the offspring to take advantage of the parent's resources while the young tree is growing. Trees growing from seeds are limited to the resources in the seed to get their start; trees from root-shoots can borrow from the parent until they can make it on their own. Think of a redwood: most of their reproduction is asexual. Their seedlings have little chance in the deep shade of a forest, but when root-sprouts can take advantage of resources from an already-mature tree getting light in the canopy, the sprouts can grow 3 feet a year.\nSome trees can also root-sprout or stump-sprout if they are cut or fall down. That's another big advantage--to be able to reproduce almost after you're dead.\nAnother advantage is that an asexually reproducing tree is assured of a good environment for its offspring--if it has enough energy to reproduce, it must be doing well. Of course that advantage is shared by non-dispersing sexually reproducing trees.
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im pretty sure (NOT certain) that heartwood is the TOTAL centre of a tree's wood. and sapwood is The wood near the outside of the tree. Usually lighter in color than heartwood.\n OR if ure REALLY scientific i would describe it like this:\n\nThe outer growth rings which are physiologically active part of a living tree. Sapwood is usually lighter than heartwood, and lacks decay resistance.
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Deciduous trees (i.e., trees that lose their leaves) undergo the process of abscission (falling off).  In the process of falling off, leaves change color.
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what is the difference between the two