Nature & animals
The “Trees and forests” quiz — Nature & animals. It has 25 questions in five categories: Forest giants, Forest secrets, Famous forests, Forest harvest, Tree folklore. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Named after a military commander of the American Civil War, what is the name of this pictured California tree, the largest on Earth by volume?
Which long-lived biblical patriarch gave his name to a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains, one of the oldest known living trees on Earth?
In which country does…
In the gameWhich prehistoric conifer, long…
In the gameWhich Greek Titan lends…
In the gameCounting what concentric growth layers visible on the cross-section of a felled log reveals its exact age?
What poetic phrase describes this pictured phenomenon where the tops of neighboring trees avoid touching, leaving gaps of open sky?
What biological term denotes…
In the gameWhich thin layer of…
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Circling the subarctic regions of North America and Eurasia, which vast pictured biome is dominated by evergreen coniferous trees?
Which mountainous forest region in southwestern Germany, famous for cuckoo clocks and cherry cake, is the source of the Danube River?
Spanning the border between…
In the gameThe ancient cedar groves…
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Which fossilized conifer resin, pictured here and prized as a gem since antiquity, was traded along famous overland routes from the Baltic Sea?
The thick outer layer of which pictured Mediterranean tree is peeled every nine years in Portugal to make wine bottle stoppers?
The milky latex tapped…
In the gameThe slow-grown wood of…
In the gameWhich antimalarial alkaloid, historically…
In the gameIn Norse mythology, which immense sacred ash tree connects the nine cosmic realms across its branches and roots?
Across ancient European mythologies, which mighty hardwood tree was dedicated to supreme thunder gods like Thor, Zeus, and Perun?
In Greek mythology, which…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.