• Question: How do you the age of a tree by cutting it?

    Asked by to Anna, Iain, Nick on 19 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Anna Middleton

      Anna Middleton answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      @muthambulwan
      You can tell the age of a tree by the number of rings inside the trunk when you cut through it. The more rings the older the tree is.

    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Ah, this is called dendrochronology. You count the number of rings.

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