How do you tell the age of a tree?

Answer 1

by cutting it down first and then counting the rings inside. the number of rings inside the tree is how many years old it is.

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You can also do it with out killing the tree by drilling a core sample from it. A narrow hollow auger is screwed into the tree until it reaches the center. Then it is pulled out and a long tube of wood comes out with it. Kinda like core samples from the earth only on a smaller scale.

Answer 2

Determining the age of a tree is fairly easy. It involves simply counting the growth rings that can be seen on the surface of a log or on an increment core from the trunk of a tree.

Each ring represents the growth produced during one growing season but contains two parts that can be distinguished on the basis of color: the early wood, less dense, is whitish in color; and the late wood, more dense, is darker in color and forms during the summer.

Counting the growth rings tells us the number of growing seasons the tree has been through, and hence the age of the tree. Some tree's have quite allot of rings!!

Answer 3

The age of a tree can be determined by counting its growth rings. Each ring represents one year of growth, with the rings closer to the center of the tree being older. This technique is known as dendrochronology.

Answer 4

When you cut it down, count the rings on the trunk, that's how many years there are.

Answer 5

Counting the annual growth rings of its stem

Answer 6

This might just be a rumor but I think you count the rings in the tree trunk..

Answer 7

when it has been cut down, count the rings each one represents 1 years of age.

Answer 8

There are rings in a tree trunk. You count the rings and that's how old the tree is.

Answer 9

The most common way is to count the growth rings from the centre of the main trunk to the bark, each year the tree adds one ring of growth, e.g. 30 growth rings is equal to 30 years old.