Stop 8 Big Idea: Food Chain
What animal is spiky like the spruce tree?
The porcupine eats the bark off of the white spruce tree.
Are porcupines a part of a food chain?
What animals eat the porcupine?
The fisher eats the porcupine; it is one of its few predators.
There are many food chains here at Sewall Woods.Check out this link to see other Forest Food Chains and Webs:
http://cougarbiology.pbworks.com/f/Food.chain.jp
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| Spruce Tree |
Three reasons to like this tree. . .
It makes a perfect Christmas tree.
Sap from Spruce was used in chewing gum!
The wood of this tree is used for making musical instruments, too.
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| Spruce Trees are prickly! |
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| Jacob, Anna and Gage |
Bibliography of Sources for all pages:
Jones, Heather, ed. Boy Scouts of America's Deck of Trees. London: Dk Pub, 2009. Print.
Maine Tree Club Site: http://www.umext.maine.edu/mainetreeclub/MTC.htm
Wessels, Tom. Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape.
Woodstock, VT:Countryman, 2010. Print.
Project Learning Tree Environmental Education Lessons
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