Transcript The Amazing Taiga

Welcome to the Amazing world of Biomes.
Taiga
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By Clay Rathman, Jordan
Wakefield, Esme Opp, and Sydnie
Stilley
•Most animals hide in places
out site
•Few animals are very fast
•Some animals are muscular
and powerful
•Some snakes are very
poisonous
•Some birds are well covered
in black feathers
•Some animals have salt
glands or sweat glands
•Animals store water in flesh
•Few plants have over 1400 of their
species
•Some plants have developed
taproots
•Plants must grow flowers and seed
before harsh conditions
•Deserts have a short life cycle of
plants
•Some plants are able to escape a
drought
•Gets less than 10 inches a year
•Only some of the Deserts are dry
•In summer it gets up to 85-100
Fahrenheit and 29-39 Celsius
•It gets cold in the winter
•It doesn’t rain often
•Gets very dry
•Most Continents have
Deserts
•Most of the deserts are in
Africa
•Few deserts are in North
America
•Deserts cover most of
Australia
•Desert in the eastern part of
the Earth
•Duck, Sidewinder, and
the Gila Monster are
Threatened
•Scorpion, Camel,
Cheetah, Cobra,
Arabian Oryx are
endangered
•Desert mouse is extinct
•Most animal stay in the shade
•Some burrow in the ground
•Few animals hunt at night
•Some store fat in humps or tails
•Most get water from insects, bulbs,
and seeds
•Some remain inactive during the day
•Some animals develop salt glands
Next on our stop, is the major
biome of grasslands!
By Aric, Brock,Devin,Emelia
 Most animals eat grass in the
grasslands
 Most animals stay year-round
 Most animals are grazers
 Invertebrates to large mammals
 Some animals are browsers
 Some animals migrate
 Most animals have adaptations
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Grass is common
Few trees except along streams
Tall and short grasslands
There are thousands of grasses
Many wildflowers
Many grasses will not die if
stepped on
Wide range of plant life
•10 -30 inches of rain
•Some snow
•There are droughts
•In savanna mostly hot all day
•Very windy
•partly-dry biome
• few Tornadoes
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All around the world
Often found between deserts &
rainforests
north and south American
grasslands
1-5th of the earths surface is
grasslands
About 800 million people in
grasslands
Everywhere except Antarctica
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Most animals are endangered
Few animals are extinct
Few animals are threatened
Here are some threatened animals
mountain lions, McCowns,Longspur
Here are some endangered animals
bison, cheetahs,sand hill crane,red wolf,
lion,zebras,elephants
Here some extinct animals auruba
sheep, great plains wolf
By:Alex,Taylor,Sara,and Jack
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Near Earths Equator
Biggest is in Brazil
In South America
South East Asia
West Africa
Southern Mexico
Australia
Caribbean
South Pacific Islands
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Very humid
Very hot
12 hours of sunlight
Receives from 60-160
inches of rain each
year
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Trees
Brazil Nut Tree
Kapok Tree
Fig Tree
Cecropia Tree
Trees may grow as high as
200 feet
Overlapping leaves keep the
forest floor from getting hot
Ferns
Vines
Bushes
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Most animals hunt for their food
A lot of animals eat fruits
Most mammals hunt at night
Many different kinds of birds
Some monkeys are primates
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Threatened
Bearded pig
Red crowned parrot
Proboscis monkey
Endangered
Gibbon
Aye-Aye
Mantled howler monkey
Hoolock gibbon
Red necked parrot
There many plants becoming
close to being extinct
Bali tiger
Passenger pigeon
Iguanodon
Giant moa
Aurochs
Some plants are extinct
This biome is important
because it has very many
animals and plants that are
regional to this world.
The next major Biome is the
Taiga.
Calen Middendorf Sydney
Mickells Dylan Baker Tyson Lam
•Few animals live in the Taiga
because of climate
•Some birds live in Taiga
•Most mammals
live in the Taiga
•Some of the animals migrate to
warm places
•Most animals have fur to blend
in with surroundings
•Many swans, otters, and
weasels live in the taiga
•Cold winters,cool summers
•Moisture moderate varies
throughout year
•Very cold
Climate in winters
•Gets 13 inches of rain
In a year
•Cold climate
•Winters long and cold
•Summers short and cool
 Not much plant life
 Common plant is
conifer tree
 Rarely found club moss
 Some trees don’t drop
there leaves
 Ground freezes so
plants are unable to
get water
 Trees grow close
together
 Trees in the Taiga need
to adapt to the climate
•The wooly mammoths are
extinct
•Some animals in the Taiga
are poached and killed
•Anancus is a extinct
dinosaur
•The brown bear is
threatened by being
poached
•Stellers sea lion is
threatened because of
fisher men
•Corythosaurs is extinct
 Found in the northern
hemisphere near polar
region
 In Russia,North
America,Europe,and
Asia
 Mostly found in
Canada
 Most of the taiga grows
in the Artic circle
 Taiga is far up north
 Taiga is mostly
unpopulated
The Taiga is near the
Tundra where we will
visit next, in our biome
adventure.
By: Kara, Maddie, Jackson,
and Hayden
• Break ice to drink
• Don’t live year round
• Eat anything found
•They have thick coats
• Food is stored under
skin as fat
• Most animals migrate or
hibernate
• Some animals lay eggs
in other animals
•Treeless
•Shallow roots
•About 1,700 kinds
of plants
•Seeds carried by
wind
•Grow low and close
together
• Grow up to about 4
feet
• Grow quickly
• Snows until June
• Cold climate
• In Winter
temperature
drops to -70ºF
• Very Dry and icy
• Winter is
dark/Summer is
light
• Ground is soggy
•North of Taiga
•Across northern
Alaska
•Russia
•Canada
•Finland and Norway
•Greenland
•Iceland
•Denmark
Threatened
•Weasel
•Red Fox
•Polar bear
Endangered
•Yak
•Bighorn sheep
•Shrew
Extinct
•Mexican Grizzly
These biomes are really
important to our world!