Photosynthesis
This and that...
Nutrient Cycles/
Food Chains
Who am I?
Vocabulary
100

A gas that is absorbed and used by plants in photosynthesis.

What is carbon dioxide?

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

Living things that create their own food from the sun, air, water and soil.

What are producers?

100
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
What is the outer bark?
100
Cross sections of tree trunks that tell the life story of a tree.
What is a tree cookie?
200

Is absorbed from the ground by the tree roots.

What is water?

200

Temperature, wind, and sunlight are all examples of this kind of factor.

What is an abiotic factor?

200

Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.

What are decomposers?

200
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
What is fungus?
200
The seeding or planting of a new forest
What is reforestation?
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

An organism that can be herbivore, omnivore or carnivore.

What is a consumer?

300

The types of trees that drop their leaves in the fall.

What is deciduous?

300
A plant that lives year after year.
What is a perennial?
400

The specific part within the leaf that captures energy from the sun.

What is chlorophyll?

400
The washing away of soil.
What is erosion?
400

Rabbits, grasshoppers, or squirrels.

What is a primary consumer?

400

The part of the tree that produces new wood

What is a cambium?

400

Tiny holes underneath tree leaves that take in Carbon Dioxide, and, let out Oxygen and Water Vapor

What is stomata?

500

Through photosynthesis the tree produces oxygen and _______.

What is sugar (glucose)?

500

The part of the leaf that provides the leaf strength, like a back bone. 

What is the midrib?

500

Carnivores are in found in this level of the food chain pyramid.

What is top level (secondary or tertiary consumers)?

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?