The Forest Biome

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The Forest Biome

• By Mary, Joe, Gina, and Jay

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Comparing Two Biomes

• Deciduous Forest

• Rain Forest

• Rainfall 30-60 inches
• Temperatures average 30 - 70
• Four seasons

• Rainfall 50-260 inches
• Temperatures average 68 - 93
• Two seasons very similar but slightly more rain
  in one
• Near equator

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Location

• North America, in western Europe, in China,
  Korea, Japan and Australia
• Latitude from 23 N to 38 S

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Climate and Weather

• Average temperature around 50F summers average
  temp. 70F, winter average 30F
• Average rainfall 30-60 inches a year
• Four distinct seasons winter, spring, summer,
  fall
• Season Slideshow

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Plants

• Plant Adaptations plants lean toward sun to get
  energy, leaves shed in cold
• 5 zones tall tree, small tree, shrub, herb,
  ground
• Trees can grow to 100 feet
• Many middle sized trees and shrubs
• Small forest floor plants and lichen

• Great Lobelia
• Oak
• Lichen

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Lichen

• 8 of vegetation
• Fungi
• Grows with a partner like algae

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Oak Trees

• 600 Species
• Wood used for lumber
• Bark used for medicine and dyes
• Acorns are seeds used for oil and food
• Symbol of strength
• White oak tallest up to 100 feet tall

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Great Lobelia

• Forest floor flower
• Perennial
• Adaptations
• bright flowers attract pollinators like
  bumblebees and butterflies
• Pollen is protein rich

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Animals

• Adaptations hibernation, camouflage, trees as
  food and shelter
• Mammals, amphibians, birds, insects

• Black bear
• Eastern Gray Squirrel
• Box Elder Beetle

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Black Bear

• Cubs born in winter are helpless usually 2
• Live 20 years
• Shy, curious, intelligent
• Omnivore berries, roots, grass, insects
• 250-350 lbs.
• No predators

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Eastern Gray Squirrel

• Rodent
• 9-12 inches
• 14 16 ounces
• Hoards food nuts and seeds -for later
• Nest in fork of trees
• Babies 2 times a year
• Hawks, weasels, raccoons hunt squirrel

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Box Elder Beetle

• Box Elder Beetle is black and red
• Half inch long
• Found on box elder trees, maple trees and ash
  trees
• Adaptations
• Tastes Bad
• Dormant in winter

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Conservation

• Biggest threat to deciduous forest

• Solutions to forest threats

• Development
• Agriculture
• Logging
• Acid Rain
• Global Warming
• Forest Fire

• Cleaning Pollution
• Recycling
• Prevent over development
• Reduce emissions

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Energy Flow in a Deciduous Forest
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Resources

• http//temperatedeciduousforests.weebly.com/what-l
  ives-in-a-temperate-deciduous-forest.html
• http//www.treetures.com/Blanchdeciduous.html
• http//www.marietta.edu/biol/biomes/tempded.htm
• http//thelifeintundra.blogspot.com/2011/02/biome-
  definition.html
• http//frankwinters.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/lettu
  ce-lichen-and-henry-david-thoreau/
• http//www.about-oak-trees.com/
• http//www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/trees/giant.asp
  
• http//www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05522.htm
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• http//www.illinoiswildflowers.info/wetland/plants
  /gb_lobeliax.htm
• http//www.azgfd.gov/h_f/game_bear.shtml
• http//www.carolinanature.com/mammals/blackbear.ht
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileEasternGraySquir
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