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All About Oaks: A Quiz on Oak Trees and Their Significance

This quiz tests your knowledge about oak trees, their ecological significance, cultural references, and related species. Challenge yourself and learn more about the mighty oak.

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1 ________ are used for making flour or roasted for acorn coffee.

2 The rough, hard surface of oak gives the drum a brighter and louder tone compared to traditional drum materials such as maple and ________.

3 The leaves and acorns of the oak tree are poisonous to ________, horses, sheep, and goats in large amounts due to the toxin tannic acid, and cause kidney damage and gastroenteritis.

4 Truffle (fungi) have symbiotic relationships with oak and ________.

5 What kind of animal is a Oak?

6 What does the following picture show?  A cross section of the trunk of a cork oak, Quercus suber   Oak branches on the coat of arms of Estonia   Heart of oak beams of the frame of Saint-Girons church in Monein, France   A hybrid white oak, possibly Quercus stellata × Q. muhlenbergii

7 ________ (Phytophthora ramorum) is a water mould that can kill oaks within just a few weeks.

8 What classis does Oak belong to?

9 In the ________, the oak tree at Shechem is the site where Jacob buries the foreign gods of his people (Gen.

10 Arrangements of oak leaves, acorns and sprigs indicate different branches of the ________ Staff corps officers.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the United States' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii.
  • the Wiltshire hundred of Whorwellsdown was named after a hill on which its court met under an oak or thorn tree.
  • the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America.
  • construction of Interstate 140 outside Wilmington, North Carolina, was delayed in part to redesign an off-ramp to avoid a 450-year-old oak.
  • Erysiphe alphitoides, which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics.
  • church services may be held in Serbia under the crown of a zapis, a large oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated.
  • Edward Nicolls proposed that oak trees be grown in Sierra Leone for the Royal Navy.
  • Hood Mountain in California has high canopy mixed oak forests, pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop, and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it.
  • caterpillars of the Oak leafroller (pictured) and Oak leaftier moths are major defoliators of oak trees, with leafroller timber losses in Pennsylvania of over $100,000,000 in the early 1970s.
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