Level of The Forest
Parts of A Leaf
Parts of A Tree
Tree Cookie
Other
100
This level is filled with leaves & branches, birds, owls & insects. This level collects most of the sunlight.
What is the Canopy?
100
Brings nutrients and sugar up from the Petiole to the rest of the leaf.
What is Mid Vein?
100
These absorb water and nutrients from the soil. They store sugar and anchor and stabilize the tree in the ground. They soil a erosion.
What is the Roots?
100
You can tell the age of the tree, if it suffered a drought or a fire. You can tell the heart wood from the sapwood, & see the bark.
What is the rings on the tree?
100
This tree can not live in extreme temperature. This tree has broadleaves. The most popular tree is the Poplar Trees.
What is Deciduous?
200
This level includes the ground cover & soil, it holds the tree roots. Worms, bacterica, insects, spiders, millipedes & centipedes are found here.
What is the Forest Floor?
200
The tip of the leaf.
What is the Apex?
200
This part of the tree supports the tree and gives it its shape & strength. This part of the tree lets the nutrients from the soil reach the leaves.
What is the Trunk?
200
One side or the whole tree will be burnt and as it grows the tree rings will grow around it and eventually grow normally again.
A fire on the tree?
200
These trees can be found growing at any height from sea level to alpine conditions. The needles have a thick waxy coating that makes them waterproof.
What is Coniferous?
300
This level is home to smaller trees and larger shrubs. It provides a shelter for birds. Many insects, lichen (a type of fungi),mammals and many other birds
What is the Understory?
300
The outside of the leaf. Can be coarse tooth, smooth, wavy or fine toothed.
What is the Margins?
300
Protects the tree from insects, diseases and storms.
What is the Outer Bark?
300
On one side of the tree cookie it is tighter together And on one side it has bigger spaces between the rings. Also the heartwood is not in the middle.
The tree growing on a slope?
300
The roots stop this and prevents soil moving from one place to another.
What is Soil Erosion?
400
Grows on a tree and it is the type a fungi. Also it's a decomposer.
What is Lichen?
400
The surface if the leaf. The veins run in it.
What is the Blade?
400
This part of the tree supports the tree to give it strength. As the tree grows Xylem cells die to form this.
What is the Heartwood?
400
It has black lines and dots throughout the tree could turn blue in some cases.
What is an Infestation?
400
When you cut down a area of trees that are infected or they will cut down to build a house....
What is Clear Cutting?
500
Contains tree seedling & a variety of animals & this layer also contains small plants also plants with soft stem.
What is the Underbrush?
500
Connects the leaf to the branch. Brings sugar and nutrients to the Mid Vein.
What is the Petiole?
500
A very thin layer of growing tissue paper that produces new cells, Xylem (sapwood), Phloem (inner bark) or more cambium.
What is the Cambium?
500
A line in the tree cookie that indicate something broke or died.
What is a Dead Branch?
500
CO2 + sunlight + water = oxygen & sugar.
What is Photosynthesis?
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