Deciduous forests of the world

Starved rock state park. Utica Illinois

The weather cycles in the deciduous forests changes from time to time. Weather can go from cold to dry with the coming of a new season. In autumn trees drop their leaves and remain bare throughout the winter. In spring, leaves once again grow from the trees. In the winter birds migrate south and animals hibernate.

All Deciduous forests are located between coniferous forests and Tropical Regions. Deciduous forests are found United States, Eastern Asia, Europe and Southern Africa. Rainfall is between 75-120cm a year.

The latitude range is anywhere from 23 degrees N and 38 degrees S. It has four seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Mild summers averaging about 70 degrees F. About 14 inches of rain in the winter months and 18 inches of rain in the summer.

Questions:

1. Weather can go from ( answer ) to ( answer ) in deciduous forests.
2. What is the rainfall of a deciduous forest per year?
3. What happens to leaves in the spring?
4. All deciduous forests are located between ( answer ) and ( answer ).
5. In autumn trees do what to their leaves?

Plantae = Daisies, Ferns, mosses, Oak Tree, and the Elm Tree

Protista = amoeba, and Paramecium

Fungi = Mushroom, and lichens

Monera = Bacteria

Animalia = red foxes, porcupine, wolf spiders, black bears, and mosquitoes, squirrel, Japanese beetle, hawk

Black Bear Mosses Bacteria Red Fox

Paramecium Daisies Oak Tree Mushroom

Questions

1. What are Bacteria?
2. What are Daisies?
3. What is a Red fox?
4. What is Amoeba?
5. What is a Mushroom?

American Bald Eagle

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Falconiformes

Genus: Haliateeus

Family: Acicipitrde

Species: Haliateeus Leccocephalus

Description: A large bird with big wings that can reach up to 8 ft, Black body, white head, sharp curved yellow beak, and orange feet.

Respiratory System: Air moves in through the lungs and on into the air sacs before moving back through the lungs and out again. Air passes through the lungs twice with each breathing cycle - twice that of mammals.

Reproductive system: It tends to breed during the winter in the south, and during the spring in the north. The female usually builds the most on the nest, (they are obsessed with building there nests). They breed between the months April and August depending on their location, reproducing every year on average. The female will lay the eggs but both parents or at least one is with it at all times.

Questions

1. The Bald eagle belongs to what kingdom?
2. How far can its wings reach up to?
3. What species is it?
4. What class is it?
5. How does its Respiratory system work?

Black Bear American Bald Eagle Red tailed Hawk

Red Fox Wolf Spider

Rabbit Red Squirrel Japanese Beetle

Daisies Fern Oak tree Lichens

Questions

1, What is the red squirrel eaten by?

2. The bald eagle eats the wolf spider which eats the ( )?

3. The Rabbit eats the daisies and the ( )?

4. The bald eagle and the ( ) are at the top of the food chain.

5. The Daisies are eaten by three of the animals which are they?

1. The bald eagle has extremely good vision it can see forward and to the side at the same time.

2. Its sharpness is at least four times that of a person with perfect vision.

3. Its beak is curved and sharp to help it rip its prey apart.

1. In the spring they produce thin broad light weight leaves.
2. These leaves are best when it’s warm.
3. But when the temperature is cold they make an adoption to lose

Their leaves.

Questions

1. How many more times is the sharpness of the bald eagles vision than the humans?

2. Why is the Bald eagles beak curved and sharp?

3. When are the trees leaves at?

4. When the temperature gets cold the trees do what?

5. The Bald eagle has extremely good vision but can it see forward and to the side?

Gray Wolf = the gray wolf lives in the northern parts of the deciduous forest and travel in packs. The gray wolf was put on the endangered species list in 1988. They have been hunted or driven out of there homes by humans.

Gray wolf

Deforestation = Trees are cut down for paper, which destroys the habitat for many animals, which puts them in risk of extinction

Questions

1. How does the gray wolf travel?
2. When was it put on the endangered species list?
3. Who are their predators?
4. What part of the deciduous forests do they live in?
5. Why is the animals habitat destroyed?

Symbiosis = symbiosis is the close relationship between to or more different species.

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Mutualism – both species benefit

Commensalism – one benefits while the other is unaffected

Parasitism – one benefits while the other is harmed

Competition – neither benefit

Neutralism – both are unaffected

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An example of symbiosis in the deciduous forest is the plants and the animals. The tall tree serves as a home for birds. The canopy serves as protection from predators and the heavy winds. The tree also grows berries and seeds for the birds to eat. This is an example of commensalism because the animals benefit while the trees are unaffected.

1. What is the relationship between a shark and barnacles?

2. What is the relationship between woodpecker and an oak tree?

3. What is the relationship between tree and grass in the deciduous forest?

4. What is the relationship between frog and a spider?

5. What is the relationship between an American goldfinch and crested flycatcher?

1) http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/deciduous_forest.htm

2) http://www2.kpr.edu.on.ca/cdciw/biomes/tmpdecidresearch.htm

3) http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/fischer/429_info/429trips/starvedrock/IndexSR.html

4) http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Bio96_97/P5/forest/Forest.html

5) http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Bio96_97/P3/deciduous/DfJDKB.html

6) http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/symbiosis.html

7) http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Bio96_97/P5/d_forest/jenandem2

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