Vocabulary Words
What are evergreen trees that do not lose their leaves called?
What raw materials do we get from trees?
wood and fruit.
What is the center ring on a tree cookie?
The tree is born
The top of the forest formed by leaves and branches of the tallest tress.
Upper canopy
What shows how nutrients flow throughout an ecosystem?
The nutrient cycle.
What is the movement of food energy through the different levels of consumers?
What are some of the jobs that forests provide?
forest ranger, loggers
what do broad, evenly spaced, tree rings mean?
plenty of growth.
bottom level of the forest- ground cover and soil.
Forest floor.
What breaks down the dead matter from trees or animals?
Decomposers.
What are the changes in a forest over time called?
What are some examples of recreational forest use?
Hiking and camping.
What do narrow tree rings mean?
tree is crowded or a lack of water.
The level below the canopy.
understory.
What eats the leaves of trees?
Consumers.
What are the organisms that lack rots, stems and leaves? Hint: they do not photosynthesize.
Fungi.
How do forests help support life?
What is the dark ring of a tree cookie called?
summerwood.
Ferns, wildflowers, stem plants, insects, butterflies, and small mammals like mice live here.
How do plants get most of their energy?
Photosynthesis.
what is the process that drives water and the dissolved nutrients to move up a plant from the soil, to the roots, to the leaves and finally into the atmosphere?
Transpiration.
What can happen to an area if a forest is clear cut?
The rest of the ecosystem is affected.
What damage does rings looping towards a scar indicate?
Damage from a fire.
what are the 4 levels of the forest?
upper canopy, understory, underbrush, forest floor.
What causes plants to lose water through their leaves?
transpiration.