WOOD WIDE WEB
These underground fungi threads connect trees together.
What are hyphae?
These large trees send the most signals in the forest network.
What are mother trees?
The gas released by acacia trees.
What is ethylene gas?
Trees warn each other about this kind of danger.
What are bugs/insects?
QUIET
QUIETLY
Scientists compare the underground tree system to this.
What is the internet or “wood wide web”?
Trees send extra sugar to neighbors that are this.
What are sick, injured, or lacking sunlight?
This keeps insects away from trees.
What is bug repellent?
Other trees begin making this before bugs arrive.
What is poison?
CAREFUL
CAREFULLY
Trees exchange these two things through the fungus network.
What are food/sugar and chemicals?
Neighbor trees sometimes connect these directly.
What are roots?
Carbon is described as this kind of element.
What is a chemical element that makes up living things?
The phrase “sound the alarm” means this.
What is to warn others of danger?
GENTLE
GENTLY
This is what fungi soak up from the soil.
What are minerals and water?
Connected roots help trees survive these strong weather conditions.
What are high winds?
A species is this type of group.
What is a group/type of similar living things?
Trees use this sense-like method to communicate warnings through scents.
What is smell/scents?
HAPPY
HAPPILY
Trees were proven to share this element with nearby trees.
What is carbon?
In Africa, these animals trigger acacia trees to release warning gases.
What are giraffes?
The author of “Can Trees Talk?”
Who is Leeann Zouras?
Giraffes avoid trees after the leaves become filled with this.
What is poison?
LUCKY
LUCKILY