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Forests: Glossary
A
- altitude
- height above sea level
B
- boreal
- evergreen forests of subarctic regions - also taiga
C
- canopy
- the top layer of tree growth often forms a sort of cover over the forest
- conifers
- trees that grow cones
D
- deciduous
- trees that drop their leaves in the fall
- dominant
- main
E
- environment
- the surroundings where a plant or animal lives
- evergreens
- plants that stay green all year - they do not change color and lose their leaves in the fall
- expansive
- vast, far reaching
F
- fauna
- animals
- forest floor
- the bottom layer of the forest, soil and dead plants and animals
G
- generated
- created
I
- inhabitants
- living things of an area
M
- maturity
- fully grown
P
- precipitation
- water that falls to the ground as rain, snow, etc.
R
- recreation
- things done for fun and enjoyment
- recycled
- to cycle through something again and again - used again and again
- regions
- areas
S
- snowpack
- the winter collection of snow - often collected over time
- sustain
- help them survive
T
- taiga
- evergreen forests of subarctic regions - also boreal
- temperate
- mild, not extreme
- tropical
- related to the tropics - hot and humid area
U
- understory
- the second layer of a forest just below the canopy
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