Biome Project Deciduous Forest

Temperate Deciduous Forest

Contents: Abiotic Factors Ecological Succession Primary Producers and Decomposers Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Consumers Food Web Geographical Distribution Special Highlight: Ecosystem Conservation

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Primary Producer: Oak Tree The oak trees can grow up to 70 feet The Oak Tree's fruit is an acorn.

The squirrels and mice of the Deciduous Forest eat these acorns.

Since the wood of the oak is very hard and sturdy it is used as lumber.

Most oak trees can live up to 200 years.

Oak trees can take up to 190 liters of water!

Primary Decomposer: Mushroom (Amanita Caesarea) Mushrooms grow on organisms (plants) and decomposes it.

Mushrooms transform into rich soil when they die.

All mushrooms reproduce with spores.

Mushrooms grow towards the light.

Scientists don't know how mushrooms use light.

Primary Consumer: Squirrels (Red Squirrels) Eat acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, flowers, caterpillars and even fungi.

They are very strong swimmers.

Their pelts, in fairytale, were Cinderella's slippers.

First appeared 10,000 years ago.

In Finland their pelts were once used as currency.

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Tertiary Consumer: Broad Winged Hawk They eat small amphibians, insects, and mammals.

They usually live in large forests with large bodies of water.

They try to live away from humans.

They travel by flying from branch to branch.

Circle over their breeding grounds as territorial defense.

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Tertiary Consumer:

Secondary Consumer

Falcon

Bobcat

Snake

Raven

Primary Consumer

Squirrel Mouse

Rabbit

Primary Producers and Decomposers

Acorn/Nut

Fern

Mushroom

Caterpillar

References (Eric) All you need to know about red squirrels – 25 fascinating facts. (n.d.). COUNTRY FILE. Retrieved from http://www.countryfile.com/explorecountryside/wildlife/all-you-need-know-about-redsquirrels Collins, D. (n.d.). Temperate Deciduous Forests [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved February 14, 2018, from Prezi website: https://prezi.com/yers6c9znsnv/temperate-deciduousforests/ Oak Tree Facts [Fact sheet]. (n.d.). Retrieved February 14, 2018, from SoftSchools website: http://www.softschools.com/facts/plants/oak_tree_fac ts/505/ Stamets, P. (n.d.). Some Unusual & Interesting Facts About Mushrooms [Fact sheet]. Retrieved February 14, 2018, from Fungi Perfecti website: http://www.fungi.com/blog/items/facts-aboutmushrooms.html Yan, J. (n.d.). Temperate Deciduous Forest of Japan.

Retrieved 2015, from http://temp-forestjapan.blogspot.com/2015/11/blog-post.html

1. Rocks 2. Soil 3. Water 4. Sunlight 5.Rain 6. Temperature 7. Climate

The average temperature of the forest is about 50 degrees F. The average amount of rainfall in the forest is 30 to 60 inches a year.

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Primary Succession is the growth of an ecosystem that starts from bare rock. In this area there are no plant or animals that previously occupied it. This process occurs very slowly because there are organic compounds present in order to allow growth.

1) Lichens give off acid which will then decaying the rock to form soil.

2) Once the soil is present in the biome, moss can now start to grow in the area. As this moss dies, it leads to nutrients being added to the soil such as organic matter.

3) As time goes on and more rock starts to decay, the soil become thicker which leads to the formation of weeds and grasses 4) When the grass and weeds decompose, those nutrients are added to the soil also.

5) Then the first type of trees can start to grow which are pine trees.

Secondary Succession: the growth of an ecosystem in a biome that already has vegetation. These areas have been damaged by some sort of natural disaster and in these areas there is now organic matter present. Safwan

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Organism Spotlight: The Pileated Woodpecker The pileated woodpecker is an organism that is mostly found in a deciduous forest.The pileated woodpecker has black legs and a gray beak. An extremely loud bird, the pileated woodpecker have different noises, including a high-pitched waa, wok, wuk and cuk, cuk, cuk call. It also makes a loud, drumming noise, when its bill hits dead trees at great speed.The pileated woodpecker is classified as Least Concern on a list that says if animals are endangered or extinct.

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Deciduous forests are all over the world.

There are deciduous forests in Eastern United States, middle of Europe, Russia, Japan and China.

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Deciduous forests face many problems.

There is too much air pollution, logging, agriculture, roads, forest fire, and water pollution.

So much air pollution is damaging the  animals. The animals can't breathe and they will die. The trees slowly die because the air pollution WWF is trying to fix these problems by seting up protected land, which will stop civilization from destroying the forest.

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