Photosynthesis
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Coniferous vs. Deciduous
Who am I?
Vocabulary
100

The part of the tree where photosynthesis happens.

What are the leaves?
100
The highest level of a forest.
What is upper canopy?
100
Balsam Poplar
What is deciduous?
100
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
What is the outer bark?
100

Cross sections of tree trunks that tell the life story of a tree.

What is a tree cookie?

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What is a dendrodisc?

200
Comes from the ground and is absorbed by the tree roots.
What is water?
200
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
200
Douglas Fir
What is coniferous?
200
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
What is fungus?
200

The seeding or planting of seeds or cones in an area previously logged.

What is reforestation?

300

A gas that is released during respiration, and a primary ingredient in photosynthesis.

What is carbon dioxide?

300
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here
What is the forest floor?
300

I shed my leaves all year long.

What is coniferous?

300

The name for the part of the food chain that makes its own food.

What is producer?

300
A plant that lives year after year.
What is a perennial?
400
Captures heat energy.
What is chlorophyll?
400
The reason there may be very narrow rings on the cross-section of a tree.
What is drought or poor growing conditions?
400

I have broad shaped leaves.

What is deciduous?

400
The part of the tree that produces new woood
What is a cambium?
400

Cutting all of the trees down in an area.

What is clear-cutting?

500

The "food" the tree produces for itself.

What is glucose?

500

The name for the part of a leaf that attaches the leaf to the stem.

What is the petiole?

500

A tree that seems coniferous, but appears deciduous in the autumn.

What is a tamarack tree/larch

500

Transpiration, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation

What are the steps of the water cycle?

500

The very top tip of a leaf.

What is the apex?

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