Pioneer Stage
Middle Stage
Final Stage
Parts of a Tree
Vocabulary and Other Info
100
These are three trees found in the pioneer stage.
What is aspen, birch, poplar, white pine and cedar? (Name 3 out of this list)
100
These are 2 trees found in the middle stage.
What are white ash, tulip trees, red oak and red maple?
100
These trees can be found in the final stage of a forest.
What is sugar maple and beech trees?
100
This is what the outer bark does for a tree.
What is protect it from weather, water and insect.
100
This is what the word prey means.
What is other animals hunt and eat that animal.
200
These are the names of 2 animals that live in tunnels in the pioneer stage.
What are shrews, moles and woodchucks?
200
This is the amount of shade middle stage trees need to grow.
What is a little shade?
200
Final stage trees need this to begin to grow.
What is deep shade?
200
This is what the heartwood do for a tree?
What is keep it strong and standing tall since it is the backbone of the tree?
200
This is what predator means.
What is an animal that hunts other animals for food?
300
These are 2 predators that hunt for prey in the pioneer stage.
What are hawk, snake, weasel, fox, and owl.
300
These 4 birds live in the middle stage.
What are cardinal, redstart, oven bird and ruffed grouse?
300
These are 4 animals that live in the final stage.
What is fox, bears, wood turtle, mice, bobcats, squirrels, porcupine, and chipmunks?
300
This is what the cambium does for the tree.
What is build new cells for the inner bark and sapwood layers.
300
This is why trees change from one stage to another.
What is the trees in the pioneer stage grow tall and block the sunlight that pioneer stage trees need to grow so other types of trees start to grow that like the shade?
400
These 4 birds live in the pioneer stage.
What are towhees, warblers, field sparrows, song sparrows, catbirds and bobolinks?
400
This is an animal that is new to the forest in the middle stage.
What is a deer?
400
At the end of the final stage these are the trees that can be found in the canopy.
What is sugar maple and beech trees.
400
This is the layer of the tree also called the xylem.
What is sapwood?
400
This is the meaning of succession.
What is the process by which a plant or animal group is replaced by another plant or animal group in a particular order?
500
This is what the land looks like at the beginning of the pioneer stage.
What is an open field with lots of wildflowers?
500
This is the reason why white pine trees can not grow in the middle stage.
What is other taller trees block the sunlight that sun loving trees like pine trees need to grow?
500
This is the reason larger animals start to live in the forest during the final stage.
What is the forest is now so dark that bigger animals can hide.
500
This is another name for the inner bark and also explain the function.
What is phloem? What is carries food from the leaves to the rest of the tree?
500
This is the difference between the canopy and the understory.
What is the canopy is the highest layer of the forest and has top of the oldest trees and the understory is the layer underneath the canopy that has the tops of younger trees?
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