Importance of Trees
During photosynthesis, trees take in this gas that humans breathe out.
What is carbon dioxide?
This word describes what happens when we cut down trees to sell the wood for furniture or paper.
What is Logging?
This word means planting new trees where an old forest used to be
What is Reforestation?
When forests are gone, the Earth gets warmer; this two-word phrase describes the overall heating of our planet.
What is Global Warming?
This is the name for the very top layer of the rainforest, which acts like a big leafy umbrella.
What is the Canopy?
Trees act as "Lungs of the Earth" because they release this gas that we need to survive.
What is oxygen?
Most of the cleared land in the Amazon is used for this specific type of animal farming.
What is cattle ranching?
You can save forests by doing this to your old soda cans, glass, and paper.
What is Recycling?
Without trees to soak up heavy rain, these natural disasters happen more often in nearby towns.
What are Floods?
Some trees in the California Redwoods can grow to be over 2,000 years old, meaning they were alive during the time of this ancient empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
Without tree roots to hold dirt in place, this happens when rain washes all the nutrients away.
What is soil erosion?
When a city grows bigger and starts building houses where a forest used to be, it’s called this.
What is urbanization
This is the word for when people refuse to buy products from companies that destroy forests.
What is a boycott?
This is the term for people who live in the forest and rely on it for their food, medicine, and culture.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
This "sweet" liquid is tapped from the trunks of certain trees in the spring and boiled down to put on pancakes.
What is Maple Syrup?
Trees help create rain through this process, which is basically like "tree sweat" evaporating into clouds.
What is transpiration?
To make room for giant farms that produce beef, farmers often use this method to clear land quickly.
What is Slash- and-burn?
This type of "Tourism" encourages people to visit forests to see them alive, proving trees are worth more standing than cut down.
What is Ecotourism?
About 25% of all modern medicines come from plants found here, meaning deforestation could destroy future cures.
What is the Rainforest?
This is the world’s tallest species of tree, which can grow taller than a 30-story skyscraper.
What is a Coast Redwood?
Because they store more carbon than they release, forests are known by this 2-word "plumbing" term.
What is a carbon sink?
Many companies clear forests to plant trees that produce this oil, found in half of all packaged snacks
What is palm oil?
If you see this 3-letter logo on your notebook, it means the paper came from a "safe" forest.
Losing forests can cause this "D" word, where once-green land turns into a dry, sandy desert.
What is Desertification?
Scientists have discovered that trees "talk" to each other and share nutrients underground using a network of mycelium.What is the nickname of the network?
What is the Wood Wide Web?