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  • What is a decomposer? Give an example
    an organism that breaks down materials and litter ex: worm
  • What is an ecosystem?
    A community of living and non living things & their relationship with each other and their environment.
  • What does abiotic mean? Give an example from the forest.
    A non-living thing. Ex. rock, sun, etc.
  • Which type of trees transpire more?
    Deciduous
  • What is the bottom level of the forest? Name an organism that is found there
    Forest floor. Worms/insects.
  • Draw an example of a food chain (from our forests)
    .
  • What is a consumer? Example.
    An organism that eats other organisms in the ecosystem. Ex: animals
  • What is a primary consumer?
    the first consumer to eat the producer
  • What are fungi?
    Organisms that lack roots, stems and leaves.
  • Which have more stomata? Leaves or needles?
    Leaves
  • What is a food chain?
    A representation of how animals get food in an ecosystem.
  • What is producer? Give an example.
    Any organism that uses energy from the sun to produce its own food. A plant
  • What is photosynthesis?
    A process where plants create their own food.
  • Draw a sketch on the board of the nutrient cycle.
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  • What are the three branch positions that we discussed?
    Outward, upward and downward.
  • What is transpiration? What part of the leaf is involved?
    when water vapour is released through the stomata of the leaf.
  • What is the correct equation for photosynthesis?
    Carbon Dioxide+ Water + sunlight = Sugars + Oxygen
  • What are conks?
    A type of fungus found attached to tree trunks.
  • What is the nutrient cycle?
    describes how nutrients move from the physical environment into living organisms, and are recycled back to the physical environment.
  • What do the rings on a tree tell us?
    How old it is.
  • What is a tertiary consumer?
    the consumer that eats the secondary consumer.
  • What is a secondary consumer?
    a consumer that eats the first consumer
  • What is the purpose of a tree's bark?
    To protect it.
  • What are the three ways that we classify tree bark?
    Colour, texture, pattern.
  • What is the highest level of the forest? Name an animal that is found there.
    Upper canopy. Birds/insects
  • What does biotic mean? Give an example from the forest.
    A living organism. Ex.animal, plant.
  • What is the 3rd level (going up) of the forest called? Name an organism that is found there
    Mid-level or understory. Ex: insects/small mammals/birds
  • What is the one tree that is classified as BOTH types of trees.
    Tamarack.
  • What are the two different types of trees?
    Deciduous and coniferous
  • What is the second level (going up) of the forest called? Name an organism that is found there.
    Underbrush. Large and small animals
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