Photosynthesis
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Coniferous vs. Deciduous
Who am I?
Vocabulary
100
A gas that is often released from humans, animals, cars and other sources of pollutants.
 Carbon dioxide
100
The highest level of a forest.
Upper canopy
100
Balsam Poplar
 Deciduous
100
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
 Outer bark
100
Cross sections of tree trunks that tell the life story of a tree.
Tree cookie
200
Comes from the ground and is absorbed by the tree roots.
Water
200
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
 Decomposers
200
Douglas Fir
Coniferous
200
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
What is fungus?
200
The seeding or planting of a new forest
 Reforestation
300
Living organisms need this gas to live.
Oxygen
300
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here
On the forest floor
300
White Spruce
Coniferous
300
I only grow in areas of low pollution.
 Lichen
300
A plant that lives year after year.
Perennial
400
Captures heat energy.
Chlorophyll
400
The washing away of soil.
 Erosion
400
Mountain Ash
Deciduous
400
The part of the tree that produces new woood
 Cambium
400
The re-birth of a forest after a fire.
 Forest succession
500
The food, the tree produces for itself.
Glucose
500
An organsim that can be a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
 Consumer
500
Tamarack/Larch
 Deciduous and coniferous.
500
We are the first trees to grow after a fire.
Pioneer trees
500
The evaporation of water into the air through the stomata (tiny holes) on the underside of the leaf.
 Transpiration