Trees and Forest Quiz #1 (Repost)

1.     Biotic versus Abiotic Factors

2.     What is an ecosystem?  What keeps an ecosystem going?

3.     What are producers, consumers and decomposers?  (Give 3 examples of each)

4.     Levels of the Forest

a.    Emergent

b.    Canopy

c.     Understory

d.    Forest Floor

5.     What is the Nutrient Cycle and what does it do?

6.     Difference between deciduous and coniferous trees?

7.     What are the ingredients for Photosynthesis and what does it produce?

8.     Leaves

a.    Parts of a Leaf (margin, mid-rib, blade, petiole, veins)

b.    Types of Leaves (Simple and Compound)

c.     Shapes of Leaves (Lobed, Oblong, Linear, Oval/Ovate, Deltoid, Cordate/Orbicular)

d.    Leaf Arrangements (Opposite versus Alternate, Scale-like needles, bundles of 2 or 5)

e.    Leaf Margins (fine toothed, coarse toothed, scalloped or wavy, smooth)

9.     Bark Patterns