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 upper canopy?
This type of organism needs to eat other things to survive
What is a consumer?
I protect the tree from insects and trauma in the environment.
What is the outer bark?
Cross sections of tree trunks that tell the life story of a tree. Specifically, the part of the cross section that no longer carries sap and provides the tree with structure.
What is a tree cookie? What is heartwood?
Two elements that a plant uses to make it's own food.
What is water and carbon dioxide?
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
A tree is an example of this type of organism
What is a producer?
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
What is fungus?
The seeding or planting of a new forest
What is reforestation?
Living organisms need this gas to live and breathe this in.
What is oxygen?
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here
What is the forest floor?
A worm is an example of this type of organism
What is decomposer?
I only grow in areas of low pollution.
What is lichen?
Part of the tree cookie that brings nutrients up from the roots.
What is Xylem (sapwood)?
Captures solar energy in the plant. Gives plants their green colour.
What is chlorophyll?
The washing away of soil.
What is erosion?
This type of organism only eats meat
What is carnivore?
The part of the tree that produces new wood
What is a cambium?
The re-birth of a forest after a fire.
What is forest succession?
The food, the tree produces for itself.
What is glucose (sugar)?
An organism that can be a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
What is a consumer?
This type of organism only eats plants
What is herbivore?
I bring food from the leaves down to the rest of the tree.
What is phloem?
The evaporation of water into the air through the stomata (tiny holes) on the underside of the leaf.
What is transpiration?