Starter quiz
- Trees help to keep temperatures __________ on very hot days in urban areas.
- cooler ✓
- warmer
- the same
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- Trees can help to ______ flooding.
- 'prevent' ✓
- Trees efficiently remove harmful pollutants from the air while supplying us with clean __________ at the same time.
- carbon dioxide
- oxygen ✓
- sulphur
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- Woods and trees can improve our health and wellbeing in many ways, including:
- reducing stress ✓
- improving mood ✓
- helping us earn more money
- boosting the immune system ✓
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- To help identify a species of tree, we could look at:
- when it was planted
- its overall appearance, size, shape and bark ✓
- its leaves and needles ✓
- its fruits or seeds, e.g conkers. ✓
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- If the foliage on the tree is needles or scales then you are probably looking at a...
- 'conifer' ✓
Exit quiz
- A __________ is a large area full of trees.
- tree
- wood
- forest ✓
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- __________ are a group of trees and shrubs, usually evergreen, that have fruit called cones, and needle or scale-shaped leaves.
- Native
- Conifer ✓
- Boadleaf
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- What is an area of land on which one kind of crop is grown, e.g. trees for wood.
- plantation ✓
- wood
- forest
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- How much woodland has been allowed to grow undisturbed in the UK?
- all of it
- most of it
- very little of it ✓
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- To be classed as ‘ancient woodland’, trees must have existed in the same location since...
- 1600 AD ✓
- 1800 AD
- 2000 AD
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- What type of woodland does this describe? ‘Woodland that has had continuous cover since 1600, but older trees have been removed and other trees planted.’
- semi-natural ancient woodland
- replanted ancient woodland ✓
- recent plantation
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Key learning points
- Maps provide a range of clues that can give us information about how land is and has been managed.
- Tree symbols on maps are also useful in distinguishing broadleaf trees from conifer plantations.
- Semi-natural ancient woodlands are of high ecological and heritage value.
Common misconception
Coniferous forests are all recently planted.
There are some remaining ancient Caledonian pinewood forests in Scotland which are coniferous.
Keywords
Forest - A forest is a large area full of trees
Plantation - An area of land on which one kind of crop is grown, e.g. trees for wood
Conifer - Conifers are a group of trees and shrubs, usually evergreen, that have fruit called cones, and needle or scale-shaped leaves
Boundary - A boundary is a physical or imaginary line that marks the edge of a particular area
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