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What do trees in temperate climates gain when they drop their leaves in the fall?
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∙ 13y ago
Well, when they drop they're leaves in the fall, they go dormant, so they don't really do much. (I live in a temperate climate, I should know.) However, during the fall, some species of trees (like the oak or hickory) produce nuts that you can collect and either eat or plant so you can enjoy more beautiful trees.
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Does oak tree never lose their leaves?
All oak trees but one are deciduous in temperate climates so therefore drop their leaves in Autumn.
Why does your eugenia tree drop its leaves?
why does eugenia trees drop lots of leaves
Will deciduous trees drop their leaves if brought indoors for the winter?
Yes, they will drop their leaves anyway.
What trees drop their leaves as the winter approches and grow new leaves in spring?
deciduous trees
Does a deciduous trees drop its leaves?
Yes :)
What is another name trees that have broad leaves?
Broad leaf trees drop their leaves in Autumn and are known as deciduous.
What trees drop their leaves as winter approaches and grow new leaves in spring?
deciduous trees
Why do trees with leaves have to shed them in winter?
trees lose their leaves because the sun gives them chlorophyll. without chlorophyll, the leaves die and drop off.
What is the name given to trees that are cone bearing and do not drop their leaves?
Trees that do not drop their leaves in the autumn are called evergreens. Cone bearing trees are called conifers. All conifers are not evergreen and all evergreens are not conifers.
What are differences between evergreen and deciduous forests?
deciduous trees drop their leaves all at once at the end of the warm season; evergreen means the tree never drops its leaves all at once but rather sheds them evenly throughout the year as they become old or diseased. Evergreen forests include coniferous forest (pines, spruces, etc.) and tropical broadleaf forests, and deciduous forests are usually temperate broadleaf forests (oaks, maples, etc.) broadleaf evergreens are able to exist in the tropics because it is always warm and there is always plenty of light available for photosynthesis, whereas broadleaf trees in temperate regions are usually deciduous because it is more energy efficient for the trees to go dormant and drop the unnecessarily large leaves when it gets cold and the amount of light decreases in the winter. Coniferous forests retain their leaves even in extremely cold climates because the leaves are so small and thin that it is not a burden to keep them on.
Why do leaves of trees drop on the east side of us in fall?
Actually the leaves on some trees drop everywhere in fall (not just in the eastern US) and the leaves on other trees never drop.The trees that drop their leaves in fall are called deciduous and the trees that never drop their leaves are called evergreen.The reason for the phenomenon you are describing is that in the eastern US forests have many more deciduous trees than evergreen trees, while in the western US forests have many more evergreen trees than deciduous trees. But forests on both sides of the US always have some of both types.Deciduous trees drop their leaves in fall mostly as a way to minimize water loss in winter to the cold dry air. Evergreens have an entirely different means of coping with cold dry air in winter.
Do Coniferous trees have large broad leaves that drop in the fall?
No they don't. What kind of trees are coniferous? It means, cone bearing. So, the most familiar kind of cone on a tree is the pine cone. What kind of leaves do pine trees have? They have needles, very narrow leaves that do not drop off in the fall, but stay on all year. Some conifers, such as the Larch, drop their leaves in the Autumn, but they do not have large broad leaves.
