Tree Anatomy

A ______ is a community of trees, shrubs, herbs, and associated plants and organisms that cover a considerable area that use oxygen, water and soil nutrients as the community attains maturity and reproduces itself.

• Shrub
• Forest
• Ecosystem
• Trees

_____ is the scientific study of the relationship of living things to one another and to their environment.

• Treeology
• Forest Ecology
• Ecology
• Biology

________________ is the study of the complex interactions between the organic and inorganic elements of a forest ecosystem.

• Forest Ecology
• Ecology
• Biology
• Treeology

Something in a forest that can create its own food.

• Pillager
• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer

Something in a forest that eats other producers and consumers 

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer

What is a decomposer?

• Something that eats others
• Something that creates its own food
• Something that breaks down organic material

An example of a nonliving component of a forest.

• Animals
• Trees
• Plants
• Soil

Where the tree increases each year in height and spread of branches by adding on a new growth of twigs.

• Crown
• Leaves
• Trunk
• Roots

Makes up the crown and produce food for the tree (photosynthesis).

• Crown
• Leaves
• Trunk
• Roots

Supports the crown and produces the majority of the tree’s useful wood.

• Crown
• Leaves
• Trunk
• Roots