Photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?
A gas that is often released from humans, animals, cars and other sources of pollutants.
What is upper canopy?
The highest level of a forest.
I protect the tree from insects and trauma.
Outer bark
Monocotyledons
One Cotyledon.(Corn, Coconut, Orchids, Wheat) (palms, grass-trees, bamboo)
What is water?
Comes from the ground and is absorbed by the tree roots.
What are decomposers?
Breaks down dead matter back into the soil.
I can be a mushroom, conk, mildew, or mold.
Fungus
Dicotyledon
2 Cotyledon. (Oaks, maples)
What is oxygen?
Living organisms need this gas to live.
What is the forest floor?
Worms, insects, toads, spider, millipedes live here
Reticulate Venation
Branched veins
Parallel venation?
Leaf with parallel veins
What is chlorophyll?
Captures heat energy.
What is erosion?
The washing away of soil.
The part of the tree that produces new wood
Cambium?
What is forest succession?
The re-birth of a forest after a fire.
What is glucose?
The food, the tree produces for itself.
What is a consumer?
An organsim that can be a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Maple tree
Deciduous
We are the first trees to grow after a fire.
Pioneer trees?
What is transpiration?
The evaporation of water into the air through the stomata (tiny holes) on the underside of the leaf.