Which tree’s fibers may be used to make life vests? What type of soil does a Rai

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Which tree’s fibers may be used to make life vests?

What type of soil does a Rainforest have: nutrient rich or nutrient poor?

Which mangrove tree has cable roots?

There are no Mangroves in the Everglades because they may only grow in what type of water?

In the food chain: grain ? mouse ? snake ? hawk, What order consumer is the snake considered?

Poison wood:

tourist tree tallest tree in the hammock

seeds carried by birds, kills other trees

relative of poison ivy

smells like a skunk

Sargent's cherry plum:

trunk looks like elephant's foot, elephants drink from these, live up to 5,000 years, found in Africa

red bark peels like the skin of a burnt tourist

also called Buccaneer palm's, found in Florida Keys

produces a fruit, has white sap called chickel, like the chewing gum

water collects at the base of its leaf

Sapodilla:

also called Buccaneer palms, found in Florida Keys

produces a fruit, has white sap called chickel, like chewing gum

water collects at the base of its leaf

red bark peels like a burnt tourist

trunk looks like elephant foot, elephants drink from these, live up to 5,000 years, found in Africa

1. Kapok tree used to make life vests.

2. Soil of rainforest: nutrient poor as nutrients washed away by rain

3. Cable roots: white mangroves ( A. marina).

4. Mangroves grow in saline water.

5. Food chain: grain, mouse, snake, hawk ( snake is secondary consumer).

6. Poison wood: seeds are carried by birds.

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