Trees and Forest for the 6th grade

Question 1

What is a deciduous trees ?

Answer 1

Are broadleafed trees that store their seed in a fruit or catkin and lose their leaves 🍃 each fall.

Question 2

What is a coniferous tree ?

Answer 2

Coniferous trees have needle -likeor scale -like leaves 🍂 That keep their leaves throughout the year but shedding the oldes leaves continually .These trees are also referred to evergreens and may also referred to as “cone.bearing “ trees. Coniferous trees make and shelter it’s seed.

Question 3

What are the 4 forest values ?

Answer 3

Wildlife and Ecology
Recreation and Scenic Beauty
Watershed Management
Economic

Question 4

What does photosynthesis mean ?

Answer 4

To make light .

Question 5

What are the parts of a tree ?

Answer 5

Roots
Trunk
Leaves
Seed 
Crown

Question 6

Name the layers of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside (in order) .

Answer 6

Outer Bark
Phloem 
Cambium
Xylem
Heartwood

Question 7

The thin layer of a tree is …..

Answer 7

Cambium

Question 8

The older wood in the center of a tree that’s no longer carries sap is…..

Answer 8

Heartwood

Question 9

The protective ,insulating layer is …..

Answer 9

Outer Bark

Question 10

It transports food from leaves throughout leaves is ….

Answer 10

Phleom

Question 11

It transports water from the roots ,also called sapwood is….

Answer 11

Xylem

Question 12

Name the levels of the forest in ascending order ?

Answer 12

Sub -soil
Forest floor
Herb and Shrub
Understory
Canopy

Question 13

Name 3 animals that are found in the sub -soil layer .

Answer 13

Worms
Spiders
Bacteria

Question 14

Name 3 animals found on the forest floor .

Answer 14

Racoons
Mice
Rabbits

Question 15

Name 3 animals that are found in herb and shrub layer

Answer 15

Butterflies
Caterpillars
Deer

Question 16

Name 2 animals that are found ind the understory .

Answer 16

Hawks

Owls

Question 17

What 3 animals are found in the canopy?

Answer 17

Birds (robins ,woodpeckers ,e.t.c.
Tent caterpillars 🐛
Other pillars

Question 18

Name the plant in the sub -soil layer.

Answer 18

Tree roots

Question 19

Name the plant 🌱 in the herb and shrub layer.

Answer 19

Herbaceous(non -woody plants )

Question 20

Name the plant 🌱 in the Understory

Answer 20

Smaller trees 🌲

Question 21

What does habitat mean ?

Answer 21

An environment where organism lives

Question 22

What does adaptation mean ?

Answer 22

The structures on the body or behaviours that an organism develops