A Presentation for School - Trees and Types

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Hi I’m Kiki! I’m one of the citizens of New

Forest. New Forest is a really big city, much

like your cities. But face it humans we New

Foresters are better than you New Yorkers.Hard for you to believe? We are just simple

people living in perfect harmony. But you!

You aren’t even happy with all those big,

gray, leafless trees you live in. Neither are you happy gettingtransported in those colorful pods. You resort to cutting down my

brethren for your own personal, selfish, outrageous reasons.

Anyways keeping all enmity and differences aside, I Kiki, the small little

rosebush from Rose Street, New Forest city will take you humans on aguided tour through our city and the rest of our clean and green (not

anymore thanks to you) plant world.



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I’ll answer all these

questions and many

many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



How do you identify a tree?

• You can often identify atree just from it’s shape.The wide dome of the

English oak may bedistinguishable even at adistance. But shapes canget distorted by exposureto the wind, heavy rainfall

or tampering with when itwas a sapling. In suchcases one can identify byit’s leaves, bark, flowers,or fruits.



How tall is the tallest tree?

• The giant sequoia trees of California are the world’slargest living things. One

called General Sherman is83 meters tall and over 11meters thick- as wide as 4trucks side by side. Itcontains enough wood to

make 40 houses- or 5000million match sticks.

• Second tallest is the giantredwood, which is alsofrom California.



I’ll tell you what it’s like in a

forest !A lush green canopy of leaves in the tropics, an array of

bright colors, in autumn, in the coniferous forest andmuch more! Sometimes when you enter a forest it is

pitch dark even in broad daylight. That is actuallybecause all the branches and leaves twirl up togetherin order to get more sunlight and in the process thereis hardly any light that penetrates through to thefloor.

The quiet forest reveals little of the teeming life withinit. A diverse community- songbirds, mammals,insects seedlings, wildflowers- and climate,soil andwater forms a complex eco system



What is the Difference

Between a Forest and a Jungle?• Jungles are bigger

than forests. Alsomore species of animals live in junglesthan forests.

• A jungle is a forest intropical areas. Atropical forest.

• A forest is a largeclump of trees.



A thick tangled mass oftropical vegetation ispopularly called a jungle. Butthere is little undergrowth onthe floor of the forest’sinterior. The tree’s continuousleafy crowns that keep thesunlight from reaching the

forest floor whereas in the jungle the light can reach theground. Jungles grow at theoutskirts of the rainforests.Competition for sunlight

results in a mass of palms,vines, orchids and otherplants. It is easy to see how arainforest, viewed from the

outside could be thought of asan impenetrable jungle.



Woodland is anothername for a forest. Some

people use the term todescribe a forest withan open canopy. Thecanopy is the highestlayer of foliage in a

forest. It is made up ofthe crowns or tops oftrees.

An open canopy allows

full sunlight to enter. Aclosed canopy, instead,keeps most of thesunlight from reaching

ground



How do trees change withthe Seasons?

Trees especially hardwoods undergo manychanges over the course of the year.

These changes are adaptations to meet

the tree's needs and in response to theharshness

of the climate.



Have you heard about

sleeping trees?• During the winter , the temperaturedrops and the sun rides low on the

horizon. Both the ground and waterlie frozen. The broadleaf treesstand bare. The trees don't grow

or reproduce. They are dormant.



When do you think that buds appear on trees? Inthe spring ? Or maybe at the end of winter ?

Well, trees actually form their buds during thesummer , usually in August! Since trees are dormantduring the winter , they don't have the energy togrow structures that are that small and complex!Buds aren't very apparent in the fall andthroughout the entire winter . In the spring ,however, they swell and are ready to open.

WHEN DO BUDS APPEAR ONTREES?



HOW DOES A TREE LIKE

SPRING?• In the spring , the temperatureincreases, melting off the snow.

There's plenty of water in theground and the sun shines brightly.It's a time of bounty that trees

put to good use to develop, grow,and produce flowers and leaves.



What do leaves look like in

spring?• Leaves appear on trees in the spring .

They burst out of buds in which they

have remained dormant all winter long.Sunlight triggers the bud break. In thespring , the sun gets brighter andbrighter, and the days longer. Buds

contain a kind of cell that is sensitive tolight. It detects when there is enoughdaylight for the leaves to survive.



DID YOU KNOW THAT

TREES CAN STORE FOOD?

• Summer brings hot, sunny weather,but it's often a time of drought.Trees take this time to storereserves using photosynthesis to

stabilize the new tissue that hasdeveloped.



WHAT IS THE FALL LIKE?

• When fall comes around, fruit ripens and treesstart preparing for the arrival of winter . Daysgrow shorter and the sun loses some of itsstrength. Leaves can no longer carry outphotosynthesis and start to display their festivefall colors. When winter arrives, trees becomedormant and the cycle begins again. Life can be

pretty tough on a tree! A tree's annual rings reveal the events that have occurred in ourenvironment.



HOW DO LEAVES CHANGE

COLOR?• Did you ever wonder what makes leaves

change color in the fall?

• As the days get shorter, the sap in thetrees flows more slowly, which affectsthe upper branches first. The leaves atthe top of the tree, which get more

sunlight, mature faster and completetheir life cycle before the leaves furtherdown the tree.



Protecting nature’s treasure

trove!• Evergreen tropical rainforests are nature’s powerhouses.

Their dense canopies shelter more than half of the world’s

plant and animal species. Vital to the health of our planet,rainforests prevent soil erosion and keep our air clean byrecycling greenhouse gases. Over the last century much of the world’s rainforests have been cut down.Rainforest cover is in north Australia, Asia, Africa, Madagascar,

South And Central America and some Caribbean islands.They cover only 2% of the world’s land surface.Tragically, this irreplaceable asset continues to disappear at the rate of 2000 trees every single minute. The clock isticking.

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