The Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowland Region Part III

VEGETATION of the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowland Region

1. What is the word for vegetation in Chinese?//

植被。

2. There are a lot of broad-leafed forests in this region. What do these forests look like? Find a picture, post it and explain it.

Most of the broad-leafed trees are green.Green is the common color.The trunks are very straight and gray. But there are many different color of the broad-leafed trees.There's yellow,red,orange.They are so beautiful.When it is fall,I think the trees will turn it color to yellow.

3. What does a broad-leaf look like? Post a picture and explain what you think "broad" means.

It looks like a green frog... .Broad means:having relatively great breadth or width.

4. There are maple trees in this region. Find a picture of a maple tree.

5. What is the Chinese word for maple trees?

枫树。

6. There are beech trees as well. Find a picture of a beech tree.

7. What is the Chinese or Korean word for beech trees?

山毛榉.

8. There are also Hickory trees in this region. Find a picture of a hickory tree.

9. What is the Chinese or Korean word for hickory tree?

山核桃树。

10. In other places of the region, the vegetation is a mixed forest. It has a mix of both decidous and coniferous trees, such as maple, beech, oak, ash, and birch, along with spruce, fir, pine and cedar. Find a picture of a mixed forest. Post it! Explain what "mixed" means!

混合

11. Find a picture of an oak tree.Find a picture. Post it.

12. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?

橡树。

13. What is a spruce tree. Find a picture.

14. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?

云杉。

15. Find a picture of a pine tree.

16. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?

松树。

17. What is a cedar tree? Find a picture.

18. What is the Chinese or Korean word for it?

雪松。

19. What did you learn from this lesson? Explain in 8-12 sentences.

I 've learned many kind of trees.That can make me know more about Canada's vegetation. I can know the English about the various trees.I can see their shape.And I bet that when I see them I can figure them out!They are so beautiful and colorful,I think there must be many bird's nest inside.Tree makes our environment cleaner.We should protect them well.