Fungi and Friends
The root like underground network that does the decomposing underneath a mushroom's fruiting body.
What is mycelium?
Plants give off this important gas as they convert the sun's energy to sugar through photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
What is snow?
In this climate zone, you can find thousands of varieties of lichen but no tall trees.
What is the polar zone?
A young spiraled fern, before it unferns.
What is a fiddlehead?
Mushrooms drop these tiny particles to the forest floor in order to grow new mycelium.
What are spores?
This important process that algae, trees, and ferns all perform is the reason these plants and plant-like organisms often appear green.
What is photosynthesis? (the chloroplasts in these organisms contain the green pigment chlorophyll, which is vital to photosynthesis)
This characteristic of spruce needles causes them to be called a "goosy spruce".
What is their sharpness? (Don't shake hands with a spruce!)
Colorado falls within this climate zone.
What is the temperate zone.
These two varieties of plants (which still exist today) grew to giant heights during the Carbineferous period about 300 million years ago.
Which of the following mushrooms should you be sure to avoid eating?
a. porcini
b. fly agaric
c. golden chanterelle
b. fly agaric (red-capped mushrooms with white spots)
Which of the following mushrooms should you be sure to avoid eating?
a. porcini
b. fly agaric
c. golden chanterelle
b. fly agaric (red-capped mushrooms with white spots)
This group of conifers has needles that grow in bundles (or fasciles), usually with 2 to 4 needles per fascicle.
What are pine trees?
This climate zone if found at and around the equator, where the sun shines most directly on the earth.
What is the tropical zone?
Instead of seeds, ferns and horsetails drop these particles in order to reproduce.
What are spores?
The mycelium or microrhizzal network of mushrooms allow these other plants to transfer carbon to one another and perhaps even send messages of warning.
What are trees?
This seaweed can grow up to 200 feet tall.
What is kelp?
Why is the bristlecone pine "Methuselah" so legendary (and hidden)?
It is the oldest known tree on earth, at 4,853 years.
This zone features broad-leaved trees that stay green throughout the year and large showy flowers.
What is the tropical zone
Ferns, trees, algae and all true plants absorb this gas from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
Lichen is really a combination of these two types of organisms living in a symbiotic relationship.
What are fungi and algae?
Seaweed is not a true plant but rather falls into this group of plant-like aquatic organisms within the kingdom of simple-celled protists.
What is algae?
This group of conifers has cones that grow upright on the branch and then disintegrate when the cone ripens.
Climate zones of the earth are most influenced by which factor?
a. the angle at which the sun shines on different sections of the earth
b. the altitude of different sections of the earth
c. ocean currents in different parts of the world
A
Why didn't bees and butterflies exist during the Carbiniferous period?
There were no flowers on the plants (and so nectar to drink and no pollinating to be done).