Layers of a Forest
Layer consisting of immature trees and shorter species.
What is the understory?
Grasslands of North America.
What is a Prairie?
They receive more than 80 inches of rain per year.
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
Plants with fleshy stems for storing water.
What is a Succulent?
Organism which obtains energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
Altitude above which no trees grow.
What is the Timberline?
Grasslands of Europe and Asia.
What is a Steppe?
What is a Deciduous Forest?
The release of water from leaves.
Plants and animals that live on the ocean floor.
What is Benthos?
Layer of forest containing grass, flowers, and other small plants.
Grasslands of Africa.
What is a Savannah?
Ecosystem dominated by coniferous trees.
What is a Coniferous Forest?
Tiny holes through leaves for exchange of gasses.
Organism which produces its own food.
What is a Producer?
Layer of forest containing shrubs and other short plants.
What is the shrub layer?
Grasslands of South America.
What is a Pampas?
Ecosystem dominated by trees.
What is a Forest?
Tree with needle like leaves that bear seeds in cones.
What is a coniferous tree?
One humped camel.
What is a dromedary camel?
Roof of the forest, formed by tops of mature trees.
What is the canopy?
Ecosystem dominated by grass with few trees or shrubs.
What is a grassland?
Tree with broad, flat leaves that are shed in autumn.
What is a deciduous tree?
Tree with needle like leaves that do not shed in autumn.
What is an Evergreen Tree?
Two humped camel.
What is a Bactrian Camel?