Cycles
This and that...
Classification
Who am I?
Vocabulary
100

A gas that is often released from humans and animals during respiration. 

What is carbon dioxide?

100
The highest level of a forest.
What is upper canopy?
100

Scalloped, serrated, smooth and fine toothed

What are leaf shapes?

100
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
What is the outer bark?
100

Another word for a tree cookie. 

What is a dendrodisc?

200
Comes from the ground and is absorbed by the tree roots.
What is water?
200
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
200

Basal, opposite, whorl and alternate. 

What are leaf arrangements?

200
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
What is fungus?
200

It includes all the abiotic (non-living) and biotic (living) factors of a forest. 

What is the forest ecosystem?

300
Living organisms need this gas to live.
What is oxygen?
300
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here
What is the forest floor?
300

I am a tree shape that starts off narrow at the base and gradually gets wider near the top. 

What is the spreading tree shape?

300
I only grow in areas of low pollution.
What is lichen?
300

Another word for leaf stem.

What is a petiole?

400

Decomposers break down dead materials in this cycle. 

What is the nutrient cycle?

400

The splitting and cracking of bark is caused due to this. 

What is bark growth?

400

Through examining this, we can see that light wood is summer growth and dark wood is winter growth. 

What is a tree cookie?

400
The part of the tree that produces new woood
What is a cambium?
400

You will find insects and squirrels living in this layer of the forest. 

What is the understory?

500

The process through which a tree produces food for itself. 

What is photosynthesis?

500
An organsim that can be a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
What is a consumer?
500

I am a deciduous and coniferous tree. 

What is a tamarack larch?

500
We are the first trees to grow after a fire.
What are pioneer trees?
500
The evaporation of water into the air through the stomata (tiny holes) on the underside of the leaf.
What is transpiration?