What is aspen, birch, poplar, white pine and cedar? (Name 3 out of this list)

These are three trees found in the pioneer stage.

What are white ash, tulip trees, red oak and red maple?

These are 2 trees found in the middle stage.

What is sugar maple and beech trees?

These trees can be found in the final stage of a forest.

What is protect it from weather, water and insect.

This is what the outer bark does for a tree.

What is other animals hunt and eat that animal.

This is what the word prey means.

What are shrews, moles and woodchucks?

These are the names of 2 animals that live in tunnels in the pioneer stage.

What is a little shade?

This is the amount of shade middle stage trees need to grow.

What is deep shade?

Final stage trees need this to begin to grow.

What is keep it strong and standing tall since it is the backbone of the tree?

This is what the heartwood do for a tree?

What is an animal that hunts other animals for food?

This is what predator means.

What are hawk, snake, weasel, fox, and owl.

These are 2 predators that hunt for prey in the pioneer stage.

What are cardinal, redstart, oven bird and ruffed grouse?

These 4 birds live in the middle stage.

What is fox, bears, wood turtle, mice, bobcats, squirrels, porcupine, and chipmunks?

These are 4 animals that live in the final stage.

What is build new cells for the inner bark and sapwood layers.

This is what the cambium does for the tree.

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?

This is why trees change from one stage to another.

What are towhees, warblers, field sparrows, song sparrows, catbirds and bobolinks?

These 4 birds live in the pioneer stage.

What is a deer?

This is an animal that is new to the forest in the middle stage.

What is sugar maple and beech trees.

At the end of the final stage these are the trees that can be found in the canopy.

What is sapwood?

This is the layer of the tree also called the xylem.

What is the process by which a plant or animal group is replaced by another plant or animal group in a particular order?

This is the meaning of succession.

What is an open field with lots of wildflowers?

This is what the land looks like at the beginning of the pioneer stage.

What is other taller trees block the sunlight that sun loving trees like pine trees need to grow?

This is the reason why white pine trees can not grow in the middle stage.

What is the forest is now so dark that bigger animals can hide.

This is the reason larger animals start to live in the forest during the final stage.

What is phloem? What is carries food from the leaves to the rest of the tree?

This is another name for the inner bark and also explain the function.

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?

This is the difference between the canopy and the understory.