By: Kyle Kysor

Deciduous Forest

• Average temperature is 50 degrees Fahrenheit

• Average rainfall per year ranges from 30 to 60 inches a year

• The latitude ranges from 23 degrees north to 38 degrees south

• It is made up of rolling hills.

Abiotic Factors

• It has four seasons spring, summer, autumn and winter

• Mild Summers 70 degrees June – August• Cool Winters Just below freezing start in

December• The soil is very fertile

Abiotic Factors

• The leafy trees shed leaves every year due to lack of water reserves.

• Evergreens keep their leaves during the winter because their leaves are smaller which looses less water.

Biotic Factors

• Broad leafed deciduous trees and some of the evergreen trees make up the forest.

• Such as the ash, oak, lime, beech, birch, and northern arrow wood.

• Wildflowers such as oxlip, bluebells, painted trillium, and primrose.

Biotic Factors

• The animals adapt to the weather by hibernating during winter.

• Other three seasons they live off the land.• They try the plants for food.• They use trees for shelter water supply and

sometimes food.• They have camouflage that looks like the

ground.

Adaptations

• Plants adapt by leaning toward the sun and soaking up the nutrients in the ground.

Adaptations

• The insects and herbivores live off the vegetation.

• The herbivores provide food for the carnivores.

Interactions

Interactions

• A lot of deciduous forests lost land due to farms and towns.• Although people try protecting the forest others are

poaching the animals.• Animals loose homes when people build their houses.• They want the land because it is fertile.

Human Interactions

Locations

• http://ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/deciduous3/deciduous3.html

• http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/deciduous_forest.htm

• http://www.google.com/imgres?q=deciduous+forest

• http://www.pptbackgrounds.net/-frame-flower-tag162.html

• http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/tempded.htm

Bibliography