The Hidden Life of Trees

Trees are people too. Or at least they can act like them says German forrester Peter Wohlleben.

He says long before Facebook, trees established social networks to send  warnings about danger along electrical impulses in their roots. Call it the world wide wood. 

Trees help each other when they're sick. Wohllenben has spent his life working in forests and writes about the latest research and his observations  in his book, The Hidden Lives of Trees: What They Feel How They Communicate-Discoveries From a Secret World.

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The Hidden Life of Trees


1. According to Peter, trees are i__________t and s_________l

2. Peter used to know as much about trees as a _______ knows about the ________ life of animals.

3. Peter says trees are like ________ but they grow more ______

4. Trees can remember heavy _______

5. They are able to _______ the next generation.

6. When you cut the roots of a tree you cutting ________ structures

7. They can't ________ without these roots

8. City trees are like ________

9. City trees grow _________

10. The mother tree needs to provide ____ for its children to stop them ______ too fast.

11. _______ is the key to a long life.

12. Trees have to __________

13. When trees are asleep they _____ their branches _____

14. Humans also can't _____ with lights on

15. Trees can send out _____ to warn other trees of attacks.

16. Trees can send ____________ to communicate with other trees through fungi.

17. Fungis need to get ______ from trees.

18. ____________ compress the soil which kills the _____________

19. One solution to this problem is to use ________ in the forest.

20. Peter's forest is a ________ ground.

21. Trees that are ________ make a certain sound.

22. Trees are able to _____ sound.

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