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In this padlet I'm going to take you on a visual adventure through what makes a Taiga what it is. Taigas are frigid snowy forests with low amounts of moisture located in northern Asia and North America. Unlike Tundras, Taigas have trees and lack a layer of permafrost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ttKTq3tUk

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Precipitation in the taiga usually stays  pretty low all year but it spikes during the warmer, summer months.

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Since the taiga is located so far from the equator the amount of sunlight that hits it is in very low amounts, very spread out and not there during most of the day.

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The winters in the Taiga are very long since the Taiga doesn't get much sunlight. This means that the temperatures are usually very low and animals need to be large and have thick fur to survive the cold.
Moose are a great example of this:
Alces alces

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Most of the water in the Taiga is snow because of the low temperature and since there is so little liquid water few plants that can survive here.

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Because the Taiga has so little liquid water, is so cold and gets so little sunlight edible plants are scarce and this made some of the herbivores evolve the ability to be able to digest normally inedible things like pine needles.

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Since there are so few edible plants and the conditions are so harsh animals are very scarce.

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Because herbivores are so scarce carnivores are very rare even though there are many types that live in the taiga.

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Picea obovata

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Picea glauca

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Picea mariana

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Abies concolor

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Lepus americanus

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http://www.arkive.org

http://www.eol.org

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org

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Abies balsamea

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Ursus arctos

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Panthera tigris altaica

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/tiger_siberian

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Lynx canadensis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWucOrSOdCs

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Canis lupus