Parts of a Leaf
What is the stem of a leaf called?
Petiole
What do rings on a tree cookie tell you?
How old the tree is
What is the bottom most layer called?
The forest floor
What do you call a cone bearing tree
coniforous
What does a carnivore eat
It eats only meat
What is the outside edge of a leaf called?
margin
What does black scarring mean on a tree cookie?
fire
Name an animal located at the underbrush layer?
Deer, bear, elk, moose, etc
What type of tree is a poplar tree
decideous
What do decomposers do?
Break down organic waste
There are how many different leaf shape types?
8
Name two reasons a tree cookie would show scarring
fire, insect attack, injury, broken branches
Does the forest floor include underground
yes
If a tree bears fruit and flowers, what type of tree is it?
deciduous
What is organic waste?
biodigradable matter
What is it called when leaves grow in a pattern of back and forth on a branch?
alternate
In what layer does new cell growth occur?
In the cambium
Name a plant and an animal at the Understory level
Smaller trees or shrubs, small mammals like squirrels and birds, and insects
Excurrent, decurrent, and columnar
What is an animals that eats both plants and meat called, and what is an animal that eats only plants called?
omnivore and herbivore
Name the three types of margins
fine toothed, coarse toothed, and scalloped (wavy)
Where does the upward passage of food occur?
In the sapwood (xylem)
Name all 4 levels of the forest starting from the top and going down.
What is the name of the only conifor that sheds its needles in fall
larch/tamarack
Explain the nurtient cycle
A producer grows, then a consumer eats the producers, then the consumer dies, and the decomposer breaks down the consumer and then nutrients go back into the soil and the cylce carries on