DKfindout! Forest

66 Pages·2017·22.907 MB·English

by  DK

Forest
Author: Cat Hickey
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Contents
Editor Katy Lennon
Designer Rhea Gaughan 4 What is a forest?
US Editor Jenny Siklos
US Senior editor Shannon Beatty
6 Forest layers
Assistant editor Kritika Gupta
Art editor Rashika Kachroo
Senior editor Garima Sharma 8 Forest floor
Project art editor Nidhi Mehra
Jacket coordinator Francesca Young
10 Living in the canopy
Jacket designer Amy Keast
DTP designer Syed Md. Farhan
Senior picture researcher Sumedha Chopra 12 Types of forest
Pre-production producer Nikoleta Parasaki
Producer Isabell Schart
14 Why are forests important?
Deputy managing editor Vineetha Mokkil
Managing editors Laura Gilbert, Monica Saigal
Managing art editors Diane Peyton Jones, 16 Forest communication
Neha Ahuja Chowdhry
Art director Martin Wilson
18 Types of tree
Publisher Sarah Larter
Publishing director Sophie Mitchell
20 Mount Kinabalu
First American edition, 2017
Published in the United States by
DK Publishing, 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
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Copyright © 2017 Dorling Kindersley Limited
A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
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no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a
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ISBN: 978-1-4654-6232-9
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28 Food chains 50 Grand Teton
National Park Tiger mot h
30 Amazing forests
52 Forest fires
32 Living together
54 Deforestation and
34 Can you see me?
conservation
36 People in forests
56 Meet the expert
38 Forest riches
58 Forest facts and figures
40 Forest seasons
60 Glossary
42 Insects
62 Index
44 Migration
64 Acknowledgments
46 Sounds of the forest
48 Walk through
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What is a forest?
A forest is an area of land covered by trees and
other plants and flowers. Forests grow in
different places all over the world and
each one has lots of different types of
wildlife living within it. Forests help
our planet in many different ways.
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Plant life
Thousands of different
types of plant grow in
forests, from colorful
orchids to large bushes.
Two-thirds of the world’s
plant life grows in
tropical rain forests.
Trees
Monterey Trees like to soak up the
cypress sunlight. In forests, trees
grow tall to compete with
their neighbors for space.
Their leaves protect the rest
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Habitats Bir d’s nest
All animals need water,
food, and shelter. A place
Praying
mantis that provides these things
is called a habitat. Forests
provide habitats for more
animals than any other
place on land.
Climate
The average temperature
and weather conditions in
an area are known as the
climate. Forests can help to
keep the climate steady and
can even create rain!
Oxygen
Trees release the gas
oxygen, which most living
things need to survive. This
gas is released when plants
make food from sunlight,
water, and the gas
carbon dioxide.
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there is rain to drink, fruit
to eat, and places to shelter
Iguana from predators.
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Forest laye Around the world, there are mantypes of forest, such as rain foreswoodland. From the towering treetops to the forest floor, a range of trees and plants growsat a variety of heights. These are called the forest layers, and this is what they look like in the rain forest. Emergent layerThe tops of the tallest trees in the forest make up the emergent layer. These trees rise high into the sky and stretch out their leaves to soak up the sunshine. C ni tserof dCanopyuolc aThe canopy is the mothickest layer of the rf rforest. The trees here eyablock out the sunlight l yand stop it from reaching ponthe lower forest layers. a C
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C eht morf reyal ypon a C UnderstoryFewer plants grow in this layer because the sunlight cannot break through the leaves above. Twisting vines and damp mosses can be found wrapped around the tree trunks here. !REALL are the only Insectscreatures that can be in foundeveryforest .layer Forest floorThis layer is very dark and does not get much rain. It is usually home to short shrubs and fallen leaves.
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Forest floor
In the rain forest, not much light reaches the forest floor.
Animals that live there can use the dark to sneak up on
their prey without being seen. In temperate forests,
more light makes it through the canopy. Animals and
plants can enjoy soaking up the Sun on the forest floor.
WHAT’S WHAT
Rain forest
A Elephant Forest
Below the dense canopy,
elephants make
the dark forest floor is
paths by pulling
littered with fallen fruit
down trees.
and leaves. As they rot,
B Leopard This big their nutrients are
cat drags its prey
returned to the soil.
up trees to eat A
it undisturbed.
C Giant African
millipede This
creature’s body
armor and
bad smell keep C
predators away.
D Madagascan
hissing cockroach B
Males have horns
and use them to
ram other males.
E Army ants These
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insects are nearly
blind, but detect D
prey by sensing
movement.
F Buttress roots
These wide roots
anchor the tree to
the forest floor.
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