9 ecosystems by Alejandro Cabral https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi en-us 2018-02-07 20:09:31 UTC 2023-06-07 02:04:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310506 1.Rainforests are populated with insects (like butterflies and beetles), arachnids (like spiders and ticks),worms, reptiles (like snakes and lizards), amphibians (like frogs and toads), birds (like parrots and toucans) and mammals (like sloths and jaguars).
2.Epiphytes. Epiphytes are plants that live on other plants. Bromeliads. The pool of water in a bromeliad is a habitat in itself. Orchids. Many rainforest orchids grow on other plants. Rattan Palm. Amazon water lily (Victoria amazonica) Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) Bougainvillea. Vanilla Orchid.
3.Rainforest Climate. In an average year in a tropical rain forest, the climate is very humid because of all the rainfall, which amounts to about 250 cm per year. The rain forest has lots of rain because it is very hot and wet. This climate is found near the equator.
4.Tropical rain forests inhabit the equatorial belt, and are characterized by intense sunlight, heat and large amounts of rainfall. The largest forests are found in South America, Central Africa and the Indonesian archipelago.]]> 2018-02-07 20:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310506 Temperate Deciduous Forest Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310593 1.In North America, birds like broad-winged hawks, cardinals, snowy owls, and pileated woodpeckers are found in this biome. Mammals in North American temperate deciduous forests include white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, porcupines and red foxes.
2.Temperate deciduous forests have a great variety of plant species. Most have three levels of plants. Lichen, moss, ferns, wildflowers and other small plants can be found on the forest floor. Shrubs fill in the middle level and hardwood trees like maple, oak, birch, magnolia, sweet gum and beech make up the third level.
3.Following rainforests, temperate deciduous forests are the second-rainiest biome. The average yearly precipitation is 30 - 60 inches (75 - 150 cm). This precipitation falls throughout the year, but in the winter it falls as snow. The average temperature in temperate deciduous forests is 50°F (10°C).
4.The temperate deciduous forest is a biome that is always changing. It has four distinct seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. Winters are cold and summers are warm. Temperate deciduous forests get between 30 and 60 inches of precipitation a year.]]> 2018-02-07 20:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310593 Taiga Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310703 1.Mammals living in the taiga include foxes, lynxes, bears, minks, squirrels, while larger ones include grey wolves and their preys: caribou, reindeers and moose. In winter, wolves hunt these herbivores in packs, often dividing themselves into two groups to encircle their preys before attacking them.
2.There are some lichens and mosses, but most plants are coniferous trees like pine, white spruce, hemlock and douglas fir. Coniferous trees are also known as evergreens. They have long, thin waxy needles.
3.The taiga is the terrestrial biome with the lowest annual average temperatures after the tundra and permanent ice caps. ... The taiga or boreal forest has a subarctic climate with very large temperature range between seasons, but the long and cold winter is the dominant feature.
4.The growing season, when the vegetation in the taiga comes alive, is usually slightly longer than the climatic definition of summer as the plants of the boreal biome have a lower threshold to trigger growth. ]]> 2018-02-07 20:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310703 Grassland Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310766 1. In North America the dominant grazing animals are bison and pronghorn. Rodents include pocket gophers and prairie dogs. Carnivores include wolves, coyotes, swift foxes, badgers and black-footed ferrets.
2.Types of grasses that grow here include buffalo grass, blue grama grass, needle grass, big bluestem, and switchgrass. Other plants that grow here include sunflowers, sagebrush, clover, asters, goldenrods,butterfly weed, and butterweed.
3.Temperate grasslands have hot summers and cold winters. Summer temperatures can be well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while winter temperatures can be as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit. They typically have between 10 and 35 inches of precipitation a year, much of it occurring in the late spring and early summer.
4.Deciduous trees and shrubs are scattered across the open landscape. One type of savanna common in southwestern Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, known as grouped-tree grassland, has trees growing only on termite mounds — the intervening soil being too thin or poorly drained to support the growth of trees at all.]]> 2018-02-07 20:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310766 Chaparral Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310822 1.ANIMALS: The animals are all mainly grassland and desert types adapted to hot, dry weather. A few examples from California are: coyotes, jack rabbits,mule deer, alligator lizards, horned toads, praying mantis, honey bees and ladybugs.
2.Common plants of the chaparral ecosystem include toyon, sugarbush, yucca, coffeeberry, California buckwheat, scrub oak, mountain mahogany, and chamise. Higher elevation chaparral is dominated by manzanita. Historically, fire swept through chaparral areas approximately every 20 to 30 years.
3.The climate of the chaparral biome is very hot and dry. Winters there tend to be very mild, with temperatures of about 50 °F. The winter climate is also known as the Mediterranean climate, which while not very rainy, is typically mild and moist. ... Fires and droughts in the chaparral are very common in the summer.
4.It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found below thechaparral biome.]]> 2018-02-07 20:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310822 Desert Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310871 1.African Wild Dog. Arabian Wildcat. Armadillo. Ankole Longhorn Cattle. Bats. Bighorn Sheep.Bear (Black) Bison (Plains Bison) Camels.
2.Barrel cactus, brittle bush, Joshua tree, saguaro cactus and soaptree yucca are among the plants commonly found in the desert.
3.During the day the temperature may reach 50°C, when at night it may fall to below 0°C. Deserts have less than 250 mm of rainfall per year. The rain can be unreliable. Most deserts are found between 20° and 35° north and south of the equator. The Sahara is the largest desert, covering 9 million km2.
4.Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's surface and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm/year. Although most deserts, such as the Sahara of North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia, occur at low latitudes, another kind of desert, cold deserts, occur in the basin and range area of Utah

]]> 2018-02-07 20:10:53 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310871 Tundra Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310988 1.Herbivorous mammals: lemmings, voles, caribou, arctic hares and squirrels.Carnivorous mammals: arctic foxes, wolves, and polar bears.
2.Arctic Moss. Arctic Willow. Bearberry. Caribou Moss. Diamond-leaf Willow. Labrador Tea.Pasque Flower. Tufted Saxifrage.
3.Tundras are among Earth's coldest, harshest biomes.Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy and rainfall is scant. Tundra lands are snow-covered for much of the year, until summer brings a burst of wildflowers.
4.Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy and rainfall is scant. Tundra lands are .... Shrubs and spruce that previously couldn't take root on the permafrost now dot the landscape, potentially altering the habitat of the native animals. 
]]> 2018-02-07 20:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229310988 Freshwater Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229311084 1.Freshwater rivers are often home a wide variety of species from insects, to amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and even mammals. Turtles, ducks, otters, crocodiles, catfish, dragonfly and crabs can be found in rivers all around the world.
2.Algae Cleaner Packs. Coral Frags. Corals. Freshwater Fish. Freshwater Fish Starter Packs. Live Aquarium Plants. Anubias. Bunched Plants. Cryptocoryne. Aponogeton. Swords.Vallisneria. Miscellaneous Plants.
3.Some common freshwater biomes include creeks, streams, rivers and lakes. The climate of these biomes can vary from as low as 2 degrees Celsius (35 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter to 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer.
4.A variety of freshwater fish also occupy this zone. Plankton have short life spans — when they die, they fall into the deep-water part of the lake/pond, the profundal zone. This zone is much colder and denser than the other two.]]> 2018-02-07 20:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229311084 Marine Ecosystem 3047781 https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229311139 1.Fish - Sharks, swordfish, tuna,clown fish, grouper, stingray, flatfish, eels, rockfish, seahorse, sunfish mola, and gars. Marine mammals- Blue whales, seals, walruses, dolphins, manatees, and otters.
2.Algae in the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide and provides much of the Earth's oxygen. Examples of algae include kelp and phytoplankton. Other ocean plants areseaweeds, sea grasses, and mangroves.
3.WEATHER: The marine biome has a big influence on our terrestrial climate! ... Temperatures in the ocean range from just around freezing at the pole and in the deep waters, to tropical clear waters that are as warm as a bathtub. The average temperature of all oceans is about 39°F (4°C).
4.Oceans cover approximately 70% of the earth's surface with an average depth of 2.4 miles, or 3,800 meters. The marine ecosystem, in addition to the temperate and tropical oceans, includes the shorelines, with mud flats, rocky and sandy shores, tidepools, barrier islands, estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove forests .]]> 2018-02-07 20:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/3047781/68sz0zkk3epi/wish/229311139