| Sequoia Facts |
| Here are some of the facts that I learned from the each one teach one game up at Crane Flat : ~Sequoia trees grow up to 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. ~1 sequoia tree can make 40 houses with 5 rooms each. ~Fire and heat open the cones of the giant sequoias and they send out the seeds. ~The Long-Horned Beetle eats the cone out to make a home spreading the seeds. ~They grow on the west side of the Sierra Nevada. ~The chickadees eat the seeds and send them out to different places as they are processed in their bodies. ~A tree has protective bark that helps prevent fire from burning its flammable wood inside, but that can be broken by insects or animals or if the fire is hot enough it will cause a small explosion of the fluids inside. Those are just some of the facts that i learned specifically from that game. |
| One remarkable adaptation that the Giant sequoias have made is their self-watering system: Fog creeps into the valleys where they grow while the trees are drawing water from the soil through the trunk and transpiring it to the air . When the fog comes across this humidity, it condenses on the tree's flat waxy needles and builds up, then drips from the needles into the soil below providing the tree with more water. |