Seasonal Forest Crossword

The closest area south of the North Pole that trees can grow is the ____ forest.
What is the primary type of tree found in this area?
Conifers grow here because they are more ____ to the cold and the cones provide extra protection from the elements.
What is responsible for the deep valleys carved into the Alps?
Highest point in Western Europe?
The Matterhorn does not hold snow because it is too ____.
What is one type of “miniature” predator hunts the Pudu?
World's smallest deer?
_____ Pudu are 30 centimeters high and babies are as small as kittens.
Life is described as a world of _____ creatures in the Valdivian forests of Chile.
The redwoods of the south are ____ trees.
______-Billed Parakeets are the South American equivalent to the Crossbills of North America.
The araucaria trees are different from their North American relatives because they have ____ scales instead of needles.
The South American equivalent to the large conifers of North America are the ____ trees.
General Sherman is the weight of ten _____ whales.
The nickname for the Giant Sequoia?
The largest living thing in the world is the ___ ____.
Some of the larger _____ are about 100 meter high, which is bigger than a 30 story building.
The Redwoods of _____ are among the largest trees in the world.
What bird surfaces in the spring and fights other males of its species in order to attract a mate.
The wolverine eats as much as it can in one sitting and “____” the remaining food for later.
What animal is able to live in this harsh environment year round? The _____
The Cross-bills special beaks allow them to “___ ___” the seeds of the cones from between their armor-like plates.
The ____ found in cones keeps them from losing moisture.
Moose can tolerate the ___ taste of the resin found in the cones.
What is one animal equipped to eat cones?
What type of rare cat lives in the taigas?
Where in the food chain do you find a lynx?
The Lynx travel hundreds of miles, sometimes never seeing the same place twice to find ____ .
Few animals are ____ to eat the cones of the trees.
The taiga forests effect the air supply of the world by _____ so much oxygen that they refresh the world’s oxygen supply.
There are more trees in it than in all the rainforests combined, the taiga forest ____ the Earth, and these forests contain 1/3 of all the world’s trees.