DECIDUOUS FOREST JENICA LEIGH WHITE

CHARACTERISTICS In the deciduous forest there

are four seasons which are winter, spring, summer and fall.

Animals and plants have special adaptations to cope with these yearly changes.

It has a canopy and a understory.

The trees lose leaves each year at fall time.

Temperate forests usually receive more than 20 inches of rain a year.

The forest trees grown a new layer of wood each year called rings.

LOCATION

United States Canada Europe Parts of Russia China Japan

PLANT LIFE Skunk cabbage is

one of the first plants to emerge in the spring time.

Spring wild flowers can appear as if by magic.

The leaves fall off of the trees every autumn and re grow in the spring.

ANIMAL LIFE In this ecosystem

you can find black bears who eat roots and nuts.

A Black vole lives here and eats leaves.

A Rat snake’s diet is small mammals.

These animals are all found in the deciduous forest.

Resources

Temperate Deciduous Forest by April Pulley Sayre.

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