Chapter 6 L2 Env Sc

When tall trees create a dense covering

• Canopy

• Emergent layer

• Understory

• Epiphytes

Top layer of the forest

• Emergent layer

• Understory

• Canopy

• Epiphytes

This is made up of shorter trees and plants

• Canopy

• Understory

• Emergent layer

Plants that grow on other plants instead of in soil

• Emergent layer

• Canopy

• Epiphytes

These trees lose their leaves and stop

Photosynthesis during part of the year.

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Trees that produce seed-bearing cones

Deep, sleeplike state that an animal enters for most of the winter

Underground soil that stays frozen year-round