LIFE IN THE FOREST AND ON THE MOUNTAINS 



ring represents a year of growth, and we can tell the 

 approximate age of a tree by its yearly rings of growth. 



SELF-TESTING EXERCISE 



Select from the following list those words which best fill the blank spaces 

 in the sentences below and arrange the words in proper numerical order. 

 A word may be used more than once. 



areas dwarf bush plains 



conifers pupae deserts birds 



few zones no wild 



trees destroy large tame 



upper mixed chaparral large 



lower maggots grasses larvae 



Plant life on a mountainside is in (1) At high elevations 



there are (2) trees, a little down there are a few (3) trees, 



while still lower the forests are made up of (4) . trees. In the 



Far West, where the mountains rise out of the (5) , their (6) 



slopes are covered with (7) like (8) In the West the 



forests are largely made up of (9) , but in the East and South 



the forests are (10) growth. Forests are the last place left 



where (11) animals can live and they also protect our native 



(12) Many insects, particularly their (13) , live upon 



forest (14) and would (15) them were it not for the 



(16) which in turn feed upon them. 



STORY TEST 



SALLIE TELLS ABOUT A TRIP TO THE FOREST 

 Read carefully and critically. List all the errors and suggest corrections. 



The forest I visited was not far from our house. It was largely 

 made up of spruce and pine trees and as the trees are scattered 

 every which way it is called a mixed forest. There is a brook 

 which flows through the woods and I have counted as many as six 

 or seven little fish I think they were trout, in one pool. These 

 fish have a large head and a small tail, and sometimes they seem to 

 have little legs growing from their bodies. I also saw a good many 

 frogs there and some jelly-like masses with little black dots inside, 

 which I took to be fish eggs. In the trees I heard a good many 

 birds and I saw one redheaded woodpecker making holes in the 

 bark of a tree. I think he was after food, perhaps sap. I noticed 



