Tree Rings

The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: How do yearly weather conditions affect the way a tree’s growth…
The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: How do yearly weather conditions affect the way a tree’s growth rings look? The objective of this FACTivity is to learn...

See if you can unscramble the words to create a sentence from this edition of the Natural Inquirer.
See if you can unscramble the words to create a sentence from this edition of the Natural Inquirer.

The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: How does dendrochronology help us understand the environment in which a…
The question you will answer in this FACTivity is: How does dendrochronology help us understand the environment in which a tree lives?

Is the climate changing over time? You may have heard different opinions about climate change. In the past few years,…
Is the climate changing over time? You may have heard different opinions about climate change. In the past few years, most scientists have agreed on at least one thing about…

The scientists in this study were interested in three common periodic changes in sea surface temperatures, called oscillations. In particular,…
The scientists in this study were interested in three common periodic changes in sea surface temperatures, called oscillations. In particular, the scientists wanted to see how wildfires over the past...

In this FACTivity, you will examine the rings on a cross-section of a tree trunk. Can you determine how old…
In this FACTivity, you will examine the rings on a cross-section of a tree trunk. Can you determine how old the tree is and what growing conditions it experienced? Then...

In this FACTivity, you will examine the rings on a cross-section of a tree trunk. Can you determine how old…
In this FACTivity, you will examine the rings on a cross-section of a tree trunk. Can you determine how old the tree is and what growing conditions it experienced? Then...