Parts of a Tree
Structure
Types of Trees
Forest Ecosystem
Leaves
Levels of the Forest
100
The leafy part of a tree is called the ___________.
crown
100
What are the two main types of trees?
deciduous and conifers/evergreen
100

An organism that uses energy from the sun to produce its own food.

What is a producer

100

Smooth, fine-toothed, serrated, and scalloped (wavy) all describe what characteristic of leaf edges?

What is the Margin

100

The top branches and leaves of the trees in a forest.

What is the canopy (Crown on an individual tree)

200

The structure of a tree that keep the tree anchored in the ground; draws food and water from the soil; and stores food.

roots

200
Finish the sentence: “Deciduous trees have broad, flat leaves, but coniferous trees have ___________.”
needle leaves
200

Another name for non-living components of an environment

Abiotic

200

One blade on a petiole describes what type of leaf?

What is simple

200

Organisms that break down materials and litter.

What are decomposers? (Name 3)

300

Non-living wood making up most of a tree stem which gives the stem strength and keeps the tree tall and straight.

What is the heartwood 

300

How is a Larch tree unique?

It has needles like a conifer but sheds them like a deciduous tree.

300

Feeding relationships in an ecosystem, the transfer of energy throughout an ecosystem. It is an inter-related network of food chains.

Food Webs

300

The word Cordate describes what shape of leaf?

What is heart shaped

300

Low growing plants in the understory of the forest.

Shrubs and ferns

400

The outer covering of woody stems, branches, roots and trunk of a tree. This acts as the tree’s protection against bugs and injuries.

outer bark

400

Small woody structures of coniferous trees which produce the seeds.

Cones

400

The organism resulting from the relationship between an alga and a fungus.

    

What is Lichen

400

The word whorled represents what characteristic of leaves?

What is the leaf arrangement

400

A tent caterpillar would exist at what level of the forest?

Canopy

500

The soft layer of the tree that carries water and transports nutrients

sapwood/xylem

500
In the winter, how can you tell the difference between a coniferous and deciduous tree?
Deciduous trees won’t have leaves, and coniferous trees will.
500

How does a tree help the environment even after it dies.

It decomposes and becomes food for the soil; its stump can be a home for small animals.

500
Are these leaflets alternate or opposite?
Opposite
500

Name 3 things that can be found on the forest floor

insects, millipede, centipedes, bacteria, toad, spider, earthworm, sowbug, moss, salamander, leaf litter, mushrooms, rocks, minerals, grass

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