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-the eastern half of North America
-the middle of Europe
-many are on Asia
-major areas include southwest Russia, Japan, and eastern China
-South America's 2 big area are in southern Chile and Middle East coast of Paraguay
-some can also be found in New Zealand, and southeastern Australia

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-white oak
-guelder rose
-carpet moss

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white oak

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guelder rose

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carpet moss

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-american bald eagle
-eastern chipmunk
-white-tailed deer

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american bald eagle

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eastern chipmunk

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white-tailed deer

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Abiotic Factors; Climate and Temperatures

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Abiotic Factors; Climate and Temperatures

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Moist Continental Climate
-in Köppen's C climate category
-between approximately 25 ° and 50 ° latitude in both hemispheres
-has four distinct seasons; spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
-most have mild summers averaging about 70 °F
-summer begins in early June and ends in late August
-winter doesn' begin until December
winter temperatures are cool with an average temperature of a little below freezing
-Almost all of the deciduous forests are located by an ocean
ocean and the wind are two big factors of why the temperature and climate change so much in this biome

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- almost 14 inches of rain in the winter
-more than 18 inches of rain in the summer

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- comprises "producers," "consumers" and "decomposers"
-beginning of the chain is the sun
it turns plants into producers
-the producers of food are the trees and plants that convert sunlight to mass and stored energy
they become the basic food source for the consumers above them in the food chain
(examples: insects, birds, rodents and deer eat the leaves and other parts of the plants)
-the consumers are organisms that are unable to produce their own food and must eat other organisms to survive
primary consumers include the insects, rodents and larger herbivores that eat mainly plants, grasses, seeds and berries
secondary consumers include predatory birds, such as owls and hawks, and other small predators like foxes and skunks, which eat insects and rodents
tertiary consumers, said to be at the "top" of the food chain, are predators that prey on smaller animals below them in the food chain
-decomposers break down such remains by converting them to smaller and smaller parts, which soonly becomes soil
bacteria and insects do just that, as well as fungi and certain larger scavengers
- the new soil becomes perfectly ready for seeds to grow, beginning the cycle of life again

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-clearing the land breaks the cycle of life in the forest by stripping away huge numbers of trees
-displacing the living organisms that once lived in them and on the land
-deciduous forest once covered about half of the land area on Earth, but it has now been reduced to one-third due to forest clearing
- we also destruct the deciduous forests through doing activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation through burning the land
-these activities contribute to  global warming, leading to acid rain and air pollution that damages trees and plants
-some are mined for minerals such as coal and oil
it rids the soil  its nutrients and prevents plants and trees from growing there again

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deforestation

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burning the trees