Photosynthesis
A gas that is often released from humans, animals, cars and other sources of pollutants.
What is carbon dioxide?
The highest level of a forest.
What is the upper canopy?
Balsam Poplar
What is deciduous?
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
What is the bark?
Cross sections of tree trunks that tell the life story of a tree.
What is a tree cookie?
Comes from the ground and is absorbed by the tree roots.
What is water?
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
Douglas Fir
What is coniferous?
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
What is fungus?
The chemical reaction that takes place inside a plant, producing food for the plant to survive.
What is photosynthesis?
Living organisms need this gas to live.
What is oxygen?
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here.
What is the forest floor?
White Spruce
What is coniferous?
I only grow in areas of low pollution.
What is lichen?
A plant that lives year after year.
What is a perennial?
The chemical responsible for the green color of leaves.
What is chlorophyll?
These organisms get their energy from eating plants.
What are consumers?
Mountain Ash
What is deciduous?
The part of the tree that produces new wood.
What is a cambium?
Decomposers break things into this to release into the soil.
What are nutrients?
These are the non-living elements of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
An organsim that can be a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.
What is a consumer?
Tamarack/Larch
What is deciduous and coniferous.
These are plants that grow year after year.
What are perennials?
The evaporation of water into the air through the stomata (tiny holes) on the underside of the leaf.
What is transpiration?