Photosynthesis
A gas that is often released from humans, animals, cars and other sources of pollutants.
Carbon dioxide
The highest level of a forest.
Upper canopy
Balsam Poplar
Deciduous
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
Outer bark
Cross sections of tree trunks that tell the life story of a tree.
Tree cookie
Comes from the ground and is absorbed by the tree roots.
Water
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
Decomposers
Douglas Fir
Coniferous
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
Fungus
The seeding or planting of a new forest
Reforestation
Living organisms need this gas to live.
Oxygen
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here
Forest floor
White Spruce
Coniferous
I only grow in areas of low pollution.
Lichen
A plant that lives year after year.
Perennial
Captures heat energy.
Chlorophyll
The washing away of soil.
Erosion
Mountain Ash
Deciduous
The part of the tree that produces new woood
Cambium
The re-birth of a forest after a fire.
Forest succession
The food, the tree produces for itself.
Glucose
An organsim that can be a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Consumer
Tamarack/Larch
Deciduous and coniferous
We are the first trees to grow after a fire.
Pioneer trees
The evaporation of water into the air through the stomata (tiny holes) on the underside of the leaf.
Transpiration