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Living tree.
Without getting to technical wood is the hard substance formed in the growth of trees. The wood remains after the tree dies but will gradually decay over time. So the answer is that wood can support both a living and a dead tree.
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Is wood a living thing or nonliving thing?
Wood is a non-living thing. However, wood can be living. Wood contains cells and cells are one factor that defined living life. When a tree is still rooted and not cut - it is living. Therefore the wood it contains is living. When the tree is cut down - it dies. Therefore the wood it contains is dead.
What is xylem use for?
Xylem is the layer of wood in a tree next to the heartwood (dead center of a tree) and it carries water down and up the tree.
Is a tree bark abiotic or biotic?
Biotic, anything derived from something biotic or something that was once biotic is too considered biotic.
Can a cell be nonliving?
Technically there is not such thing as a non-living cell, because all cells are living, though it might just mean a cell that has died.
If a stick is broken off a tree is it living or non living?
Sticks are living things. They are alive.
Is wood living or nonliving?
Wood is a non-living thing. However, wood can be living. Wood contains cells and cells are one factor that defined living life. When a tree is still rooted and not cut - it is living. Therefore the wood it contains is living. When the tree is cut down - it dies. Therefore the wood it contains is dead.
Is wood living nonliving?
Wood is a non-living thing. However, wood can be living. Wood contains cells and cells are one factor that defined living life. When a tree is still rooted and not cut - it is living. Therefore the wood it contains is living. When the tree is cut down - it dies. Therefore the wood it contains is dead.
Is wood a living thing or nonliving thing?
Wood is a non-living thing. However, wood can be living. Wood contains cells and cells are one factor that defined living life. When a tree is still rooted and not cut - it is living. Therefore the wood it contains is living. When the tree is cut down - it dies. Therefore the wood it contains is dead.
Does wood live?
yes and no, wood lives if it on a living tree which is not cut down. But if it cut off something it is dead and not living!
What happens when lighting strikes a tree and can the dead wood be used for fire wood?
well the tree would probably set on fire and the dead wood could possibly be used for fire
What parts of the tree are dead?
bark and core-wood
What is the inactive dead clogged wood in a tree?
bark
Is wood alive?
It used to be. Wood was part of a living plant, but has died.
Is sponge wood made of cells?
It sure does. In a tree trunk there is a thin layer of living tissue under the bark that grows out. The older parts die as it grows and become either the bark or the wood. So, wood is dead tissue, and therefore made of cells.
How does wood form?
Petrified wood is a fossil of a once living tree; the fallen tree is first tree is covered with sediments , then the organic material is replaced gradually by minerals (usually silicate minerals), retaining its shape and form. Petrified wood often looks like normal wood and displays annular ring patterns, bark, vessels etc. Petrified wood normally lacks the same definition that live (or recently dead) wood does. One obvious difference is that petrified wood is considerably more dense than wood.
What fills a tree trunk?
Tree trunks are filled with wood, also usually containing sap, if the tree is living and it is not winter.
Would it be dangerous to burn the wood of a dead yew tree in an indoor fireplace?
No.
