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This document provides a study guide for an assessment on trees and forests. It lists several topics that may be covered, including photosynthesis, the water and nutrient cycles, parts of trees, and human uses of forests. It also gives examples of question types like multiple choice, labeling, and short answer. The guide then provides practice questions in a fill-in-the-blank and matching format on these topics to help students prepare for the assessment.

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Study Guide

This document provides a study guide for an assessment on trees and forests. It lists several topics that may be covered, including photosynthesis, the water and nutrient cycles, parts of trees, and human uses of forests. It also gives examples of question types like multiple choice, labeling, and short answer. The guide then provides practice questions in a fill-in-the-blank and matching format on these topics to help students prepare for the assessment.

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Trees and Forests - Study Guide Review

Name: ___________________________
What topics can be on our end of the unit assessment?
● Values of Trees and Forests ● Levels of the Forest
● Photosynthesis ● Parts of a Tree
● Deciduous vs. Coniferous ● Tree Cookies
● Nutrient Cycle ● Human Use of Forests (Modern and
● Water Cycle Historical)
● Leaf Classification ● Enhancements and Threats to
● Forest Ecosystems Forests
● Food Chains

What kind of questions could be asked?


● Fill-in-the-blanks ● Choice
● Multiple choice ● Scenarios
● Labeling ● Long Answer
● PAT questions ● Open ended questions where there
● Closed one answer questions is more than one answer
● Opinion - where you will need to
justify your thinking

Practice! Practice! Practice!


Values of the Forest
Can you name four reasons why humans value forests?
1. ________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________

Photosynthesis
Word Bank Fill in the blank below:

● Light The word photosynthesis comes from the word photo, which means
● Putting together _________, and synthesis, which means _______________.
● Produce their
own food Photosynthesis is the process by which plants _______________________.
● Carbon Dioxide
● Water
● Minerals Plants take ____________ from the air, and ___________ and ___________
● Chlorophyll from the ground. Energy is absorbed and trapped by ___________, which is
● Chloroplasts found and stored inside__________. This energy is then used to combine
● Sugars carbons dioxide and water to form ________. The sugars are then converted
● Oxygen into starches. This process provides plants with food, but also returns
__________ to the atmosphere for animals, including humans, to breathe.

Water Cycle
Why is water so important for trees?
____________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

Deciduous vs. Coniferous


Write the differences between deciduous and coniferous trees in the t-chart below!
Deciduous Coniferous

What are the similarities between deciduous and coniferous trees?

Nutrient Cycle
Can you explain the different parts of the nutrient cycle? What is TRANSPIRATION? Can you
add this to the diagram?

Leaf Classification
What is the leaf type?
_______________________________________

What is the shape of the leaf?


_______________________________________

What is the margin type?


_______________________________________

What is the leaf arrangement?


_______________________________________

Using the dichotomous key below answer the below question:


Food Chains
Draw a food chain that we might find in the forest.
Forest Ecosystem

Match the definitions to the correct term.


Decomposers These organisms feed on other organisms.

Producers Refers to living things.

Consumers Describes the community of plants, animals


and other organisms that interact within the
environment.

Abiotic Any organism that produces its own food


from the sun’s energy.

Forest Ecosystem Refers to non-living things.

Biotic An organism that breaks down animal and


plant materials.

Parts of a Tree
Tree Cookies

Which of the following trees most likely grew on a slope? Circle


the correct letter. How do you know?
Which of the following trees may have experienced intermittent
years of drought? Place a box around the correct letter. How do
you know?

A.

Human Use of Forests (Modern and Historical)


How were forests used in the past compared to how they are used in the present?
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

Enhancements and Threats to Forests


Reforestation is the process of replanting trees that will thrive and create healthy forests for
many years. Explain why we need to be replanting trees.
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

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