I believe that this hypothesis will be proved correct as coniferous and deciduous woodlands have differences in wind speed, and light intensity due to the differences in the density of trees and thickness of canopy, these factors will affect the temperature in the woodland.…
The temperate deciduous forest is a large biome, stretching across eastern and mid-America, Europe, and some of Eastern Asia and Japan. There is also some small areas of eastern Australia, and New Zealand…and some MORE in southern Chile and Argentina!…
Some of the animals in the Temperate Deciduous Forest are the American Bald Eagle, American Black Bear, Coyote, Duckbill Platypus, Eastern Chipmunk, European Red Squirrel, Fat Dormouse, and White-tailed Deer. Animals in the Temperate Deciduous Forest must be able to withstand cold winters and hot summers. Animals in the Temperate Deciduous Forest either migrate or hibernate in the winter and return in the summer. The American Black Bear has a thick coat with many layers that help keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It’s also an omnivore meaning it eats plants and meat.…
These winds desiccate and abrade plant tissues, contributing to one of the many factors of why tundras aren’t able to grow trees. Temperature in an arctic tundra is extremely cold. The chilly temperatures prevent many plants from being able to grow in this region. During our northern hemisphere winter, the arctic regions of the Earth, including Alaska, are tilted away from the…
Being a coniferous area of woodland the main tree species are: pine, larch, birch and spruce. Some of these trees (spruce and pine) are adapted to the climate by having smaller, prickly leaves with waxy cuticles to reduce water loss and do not defoliate in winter. The advantage of this being that the trees may take in all the available sunlight for photosynthesis. The branches on such trees tend to be slightly elastic and bend under the eight of snow causing it to fall off and expose the leaves to the sun. The trees also have very shallow roots due to the continuous permafrost that restricts growth and also slows down the nutritional development of the soil.…
The temperate deciduous forest locations are in the eatern united states, canda, western russia and parts of china and japan. As many seasons in a temperate deciduous forest there are four seasons which are spring, summer, fall and winter. Just as us. In a temerate forest the soil is very fertile. In a temperate forest there are plants, mosses, and fern. As in the tpye of trees there are maple, oak and birtch. The animals in this type of forest has to adapt in cold weather such as the red fox, hawks, woodpecker and cardinals. One of the main threats in a temperate forest is the acid rain because it can harms the animals. humans and the trees.Which mean this could destroy the food…
Because of the short summer of the Arctic tundra and harsh conditions, the Arctic tundra has very few plants and trees. Because the summer is short, the trees are unable to grow larger. The strong winds damage the trees and the permafrost makes it hard for trees to create a strong support base. The plants and trees that can be found in the tundra are lichens, mosses, and small shrubs. The plants that can survive in the tundra are short and grouped together to resist winds and to be protected.…
TUNDRA The Tundra is the coldest of all the Biomes and being situated in the extreme north of the planet has desert like conditions. It has extremely low temperatures, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons. There is a very low precipitation of less than five inches a year which is coupled with strong, dry winds. There is a very large annual amount of snowfall in the region which surprisingly is advantageous to plant and animal life as the snow provides and insulation layer on the surface of the ground.…
On 4th October 2001, I went on geography field trip to Ashdown Forest. We got out of the coach and started to walk towards the river source. Unfortunately due to the lack of weather there wasn’t any water. It was dry rather than muddy. We took some notes of landscape then we started walk towards the waterfall which was also dry. We could see where the drop was and where the hard rock eroded away soft rock. We took some measurement of the fall (width and depth). Secondly we walked toward the V-shaped valley and river. We drew the landscape of v-shaped valley and jot some notes down as well. But the river wasn’t fill up with water so there wasn’t any flow. So we took some measurements in our mini group. We measured river course section, speed and depth of water. Lastly we started to walk our way back to coach. On the way back we stopped at Arman’s Grave where 6 people died in plane crash in World War 2. We took some note on that and came back to coach. After that we had lunch and come back to school. In this project I am to explain some features of Ashdown Forest that I found out when I was on the trip.…
The natural vegetation regions and soil regions are interconnected in numerous ways. Soil regions as the Tundra soils, or dry climate soils have the potential to affect the type of vegetation that can be grown. Where you would find cold temperatures as the Tundra, you can expect limited vegetation to grasses, mosses, and shrubs. Because the ground has an active layer of permafrost, growing conditions are not suitable for plants and trees. Areas with moist soil as the wet-climate regions, you are expected to find trees and plants resembling the mixed forests, boreal and taiga forest, as well the deciduous forests. The Grasslands are located in the dry climate soils situated in the Prairie Provinces. Due to the dry temperatures there are very insufficient amount of trees, and consisting of large rolling terrains of grasses. To conclude location is a dependent factor on the type of vegetation a region will come to…
Containing nearly two-thirds of Ontario’s forest, the Boreal Forest is quite large and diverse. Forest fires are a frequent occurrence in the Boreal Forest. Because of this, the Boreal Forest ecosystem depends on the fires as it is crucial to sustaining the ecosystem. The fires have become frequent enough that “Boreal Forest tree species and ecosystems are adapted to the periodic passage of fire and some would disappear as natural components of the landscape in the absence of fire” (Weber 1998). Selected conifer species include, “black and white spruce, jack pine, balsam fir, tamarack and eastern white cedar” (MNR 2014),as…
held in the A-1 horizon of the soil on the Beech side, is approximately 6% more…
Due to the difficult conditions of the tundra, it makes it difficult for anything to live. This is why there are only 1,700 different species of plants living on the tundra which isn’t very much. There are also 400 different types of flowers. Trees are not found on the tundra as their roots cannot percolate through the permafrost underneath the soil. Permafrost is thick…
“The Emerald Forest” is a movie produced by John Boorman in 1985 and based on a true story in the Brazilian Rainforest. The film is a about Tommy, a young boy, quickly and silently taken away by a tribe in the Amazon called, The Invisible People. His dad then, spends 10 years searching for him and eventually succeeds after running into a war party with another tribe called, The Fierce People -enemies of the invisible people- who pursue him. They finally meet by chance, but the boy refuses to go back to his original family and civilization and explains that he belongs to the forest now. The father couldn't understand the choice made by Tommy and asks the chief of the tribe to order the boy to return with him. Then, the chief says : “If I told a man to do what he does not want to do, I would no longer be chief.” This statement means that the chief always agrees with whatever the members of his tribe plan to do, he simply respects their choices. That's the difference between these “primitive” society and our own. For example, in Morocco, it is normal for the state or even your teacher to order you for everything and around every day of your life. Authority is always respected and people are generally more quiet and reserved around their superiors. They will not be upfront or direct with those above them. However, in some cases, it could have meetings and people may debates and speak over with their bosses. Compared to the authority structure of the invisibles, their chief behaves as a counselor, does give advices instead of orders. In my society, the government has the power to command and doesn't care about wishes, wants and opinions of its community. And if we try to make a list of the differences and similarities between the invisibles and us, we will end up hating the system of our life. The Invisibles are peaceful people who live isolated and don't have contact with globalised civilization. Their have their…
3. Tundra-permanent frozen layer-permafrost; found north of Taiga and in small patches on the mountain tops called alpine tundra. No trees can live here. During a brief 2 month summer, the top layer thaws, and many plants and lichens grow; averages 25cms of precipitation; however the permafrost layer/melting snow keep the soil moist.…