Taiga Coniferous forest

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Taiga (Coniferous forest)

• Animals,plants, and climate
• By Wayne McCarty and Juan Trejo

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Information

• The Taiga Biome is very hard to survive in the
  winter and food shortages are popular for all
  animals.
• The Taiga Biome is the largest in the world.
• Taiga means forest in the Russian language.

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Animals

• Some animals fly south for the winter and some
  stick it out.
• A few of the animals are the Canadian lynx, the
  Gray wolf, the Grizzly bear, and the Snowshoe
  rabbit

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Canadian Lynx

• The Canadian lynx is not a common animal.
• And it is almost identical to the common house
  cat but is larger.

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Snowshoe Rabbit

• The Snowshoe rabbit is larger than the common
  rabbit.
• Its name comes from its snowshoe like back feet.

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Grizzly Bear

• The Grizzly bear is a very large omnivore who can
  run up to 35mph.
• The Grizzly is very common to the Brown bear but
  has a larger shoulder hump and has a shine to its
  fur.

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Gray Wolves

• The gray wolves travel in packs through the
  winter but separate as summer comes.
• They can survive in many biomes as long has food
  is plentiful.

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Plants

• Many of the plants are conifers, plants which
  produce seeds inside a cone.
• The diversity of plants arent great in this
  biome but the richness is.

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Balsam Fir

• The Balsam fir can be found in many biomes
  including the Taiga.
• You can find the Balsam fir in North,
  Northeastern America.

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Jack Pine

• The Jack pine can grow up to be over 27 meters
  tall.
• The bark of this tree is reddish-brown and very
  flat.

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Paper Birch

• The bark of this tree is also flat and tears like
  paper.
• These trees usually grow in groups or clusters.

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Siberian Spruce

• The Spruce can grow up to 30 meters but is
  slender.
• They have branches that slightly droop so it
  looks slightly like a pyramid.

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Climate

• The Taiga biome gets in between 12 and 33 in of
  rainfall a year.
• The temperature ranges from 65 to 30 degrees in
  the winter and 20 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit in the
  summer.
• Some winters it will stay below zero for over 6
  months.