Arbor Day festivities begin today at 10 a.m.

McMinnville?s Urban Forestry Department will once again celebrate Arbor Day today. Festivities are going to be held behind city hall where the city will receive its sixth Tree City USA Award and fifth Growth Award.

Activities will begin at 10 a.m. and will include planting a tree. A Tennessee state representative will be presenting Mayor Royce Davenport with the Tree City USA Award and Growth Award.

With the arrival of Arbor Day, here is some Arbor Day and tree trivia. Read down to the bottom of the story for the answers.

Questions

? When is Arbor Day?

? Who is the father of Arbor Day?

? When was the first Arbor Day?

? What is Tennessee?s state tree?

? What can you count to tell the age of a tree?

? What part of a tree is considered royal?

? What part of a tree transports food from the leaves to the rest of the tree?

? What is the widest tree in the world?

? The western white pine has how many needles per group?

? If a 1-year-old seedling was planted in 1980, how may tree rings will it have in 2007

? What is the oldest living thing on earth and where is it located?

? Name the term for trees that produce cones?

? Name the term for trees that lose all their leaves or needles each year?

? What kind of tree provided food for dinosaurs and is still around today?

? What species is the tallest tree in the U.S. and how tall is it?

? The bark from what native Idaho tree has been used to fight ovarian cancer?

? What percentage of the earth?s land surface is covered in forests?

? How many products come from trees?

Answers

? The last Friday of April.

? J. Sterling Morton.

? 1872

? Tulip Poplar.

? Annual rings.

? The crown.

? The phloem.

? A banyan tree in India is said to fit 2000 people under it.

? Five

? 28

? A 4,700-year-old bristlecone pine tree in California.

? Coniferous.

? Deciduous.

? Ginkgo tree.

? A redwood tree, ?Hyperion,? in northern California is 379.1 feet tall. The tallest non-redwood tree is a 329 foot Douglas fir.

? The Pacific Yew. A drug called taxol comes from its bark.

? 30 percent

? Roughly 5,000