Tree Adaptations

Question 1

What is the order of the levels of trees in the tropical rainforest?

Answer 1

Ground level, shrub level, under canopy, canopy, emergents

Question 2

Describe ground level

Answer 2

Covered in dead and decaying leaves and twigs.
There aren’t many plants as their is little light.

Question 3

Describe shrub level

Answer 3

Short plants that have adapted to low light conditions and growing near ground level.

Question 4

Describe the under canopy

Answer 4

Smaller trees trying to reach and collect as much light as they can.

Question 5

Describe the canopy

Answer 5

Trees that form almost a continuous layer of leaves and block out the light from lower layers.

Question 6

Describe the emergents

Answer 6

Trees that grow taller than the rest in the struggle to reach light.