Taiga or Boreal Forest

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Taiga or Boreal Forest

• By Ciara Resler, Jordan Stacy, Rebecca
  Silverstein and Troy Gleeson

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A Needleleaf Forest

• Climate temperature is below freezing for six
  months out of the year
• Summer 20 to 70 F
• Mostly warm, rainy and humid
• Winter -54 to -1 F
• Extremely cold, plenty of snow
• Total precipitation of the year 30-85 cm.

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Climate

• Supports harsh living standards in most areas
• Some animals can't survive in such cold living
  conditions
•             Ex. animals with fur
• Trees and other vegetation have to survive
  harsh, frigid winds and lack of lack of heat
•             Ex. Evergreens

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Biome Location

• Located in North America
• and Eurasia
• Elevation 1800 ft.

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Elevations and Major Landforms

• Mountains
• -hills
• -ponds
• -plains

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Environmental Concerns

• Many components are hurting the Taiga.
  Fortunately, there are ways to fix them.

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Human Resources
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Climate Change
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White Spruce

• Needles length 2.5 centimeters
• Color Evergreen
• Height (average 150 ft.)
• Needles hold moisture
• Hold needles for over 15 years
• Able to survive in moist areas

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Paper Birch

• Thin bark
• Peels horizontal
• Grows in clusters
• Average height 60 to 80 ft.
• Produce scaly spikes that hold flowers
• Able to survive from the soil

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Jack Pine

• Average height 27 meters
• Needle Color reddish brown
• Provide nutrients for animals
• Turns grey as it gets older
• Wax pine needles and rough bark allow survival.
• Seeds located and produced inside their pinecones
  (dark brown)

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Species

• Canada
• 85 types of mammals
• 130 types of fish
• 32,000 types of insects
• Beavers
• Wolves
• Grizzly bears
• Siberia
• 300 types of birds
• 30 types of birds stay for winter
• Ravens
• Golden Eagles
• Crossbills

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Predators

• Golden Eagles
• Ultimate predator in the sky, can eat almost
  anything rodents, larger birds, and deer
• Grizzly Bears
• Perfect in their environment omnivores, eat
  salmon, caribou, and seeds

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Predators (continued)

• Wolves
• Have an abundance of prey, feast on all types of
  rodents thick furs allow them to survive harsh
  living conditions
• Ravens
• can survive the harsh climates and are scavengers

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Foundation

• Crossbills beaks have adapted, allowing them to
  get seeds from cones
• Deer provide a great amount of food to the
  other animals

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Foundation (continued)

• Beavers help the prey hide from the predators
  their dams allow deep still water to provide a
  barrier also allows food and building materials
  to float to the surface
• White-Throated Sparrow have the most difficult
  job in the forest main goal is to keep the
  insect population under control

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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated_Sparro
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbill
• http//www.alaska-in-pictures.com/northern-boreal-
  forest-fire-fireweed-6309-pictures.htm
• http//terriffictaiga.blogspot.com/2007/04/taiga-l
  andforms.html
• http//www.radford.edu/swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/b
  iomes/taiga/taiga.html