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Focus:
An awareness activity concentrating on common terms used in forestry.
Materials:
• Sheet of forestry terms and their definitions.
• Crossword
puzzle, Crossword Clues
Procedure:
Pass out sheet of forestry terms and crossword puzzle.
After all the students
have completed the puzzle, ask if anyone can embellish on any of the terms
that were given.
Ask if anyone knows any
words that could be added to the sheet.
Have the students share
their information with the rest of the class.
Forestry Terms- Here
is a list of some common forestry terms
- annual:
A plant that completes its entire life cycle in a single growing season.
Tomatoes, daisies, and peas are examples of annuals.
- annual ring:
The ring that can be seen in a cross-section of a tree. These rings
show the age of the tree.
- bark:
The outer layer of the trunk and branches that helps protect the tree
from injury and disease.
- biennial:
A plant that lives for two growing seasons, producing only the leaves
during the first season and the flowers and seeds during the second.
- cambium:
The thin layer of cells between the phloem and the xylem that makes
the trunk, branches, and roots of a tree grow thicker.
- canopy:
The uppermost layer of most forests. The branches and leaves of the
tallest trees form the canopy.
- conifer:
A plant that bears its seeds in cones.
- deciduous:
Trees that lose all of their leaves each year. Maples, ashes, oaks,
and dogwoods are examples of deciduous trees.
- dendrology:
The study of trees.
- evergreen:
Trees that do not lose all of their leaves each year.
- forestry:
The science of managing forests.
- habitat:
The native environment of an animal or plant. The kind of place that
is natural for animal or plant.
- hardwoods:
Broad-leaved trees.
- heartwood:
Sapwood that has become filled with resin-like material and no longer
transports water and minerals. Also called old xylem.
- perennials:
Plants that live for many seasons. Trees are perennials.
- phloem:
A pipeline of cells that transports the sugars (carbohydrates) produced
by the leaves to the rest of the tree. It is also called inner bark.
- photosynthesis:
The formation of carbohydrates in the chlorophyll-containing tissues
(especially the leaves) of plants exposed to sunlight.
- sapwood:
Thick-walled cells that are responsible for transporting water and nutrients
from the roots to the leaves. Also called new xylem.
- snag:
A standing dead tree from which the leaves and most of the branches
have fallen.
- softwoods:
A coniferous or needle-leafed tree.
- thinning:
A common management practice in which smaller, weaker and defective
trees are cut down so that the other ones can grow healthier and faster.
- understory:
The plant and tree community that lives on the forest floor.
- xylem:
The conducting cells in a tree that carry water and minerals to the
trunk, branches, and leaves.
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Clues |
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7.
These are plants that last for many, many seasons.
9. Another name for this is “old xylem”.
14. The science of managing a forest.
15. Without this, a tree wouldn’t receive any
nutrients.
18. These types of trees add a lot of color during
autumn.
19. These help you determine the age of a tree.
21. These types of plants last for only one season.
22. This is the kind of tree that develops its seeds
inside cones.
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1.
It’s a long way up from this layer of the forest.
2. The natural place for a plant or animal to live.
3. Another name for this is “new xylem”.
4. You would feel as if you were on “top of
the world” in this layer of the forest.
5. These are trees with broad leaves. A red alder
is an example of this type of tree.
6. A dead but still standing tree.
8. This forest management practice helps to create
some “elbow room” for trees.
10. These are trees with needles. A Douglas-fir is
an example of this type of tree.
11. The study of trees.
12. This carries water from the roots to the leaves.
13. These trees stay green all year long.
15. This is how the plant uses sunlight to change
water and nutrients into sugar.
16. You can’t see this with the naked eye,
but this is where the tree makes new xylem and phloem cells.
17. These plants last for only two seasons.
20. This layer protects the tree from insects and
disease.
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