Block+2+Taiga



__**//Info. on the Taiga//**__

**​** The Taiga is the largest biome. There is not a lot of plants and animals here, It is a needle leaf forest. It was named after a Greek goddess. The weather here is snowy in winter and warm and humid in summer. The climate here is cold. It can get to temperatures as low as -65 and as high as 70. The average rainfall is 33 inches per year. The Taiga is a very moist place.

__**Taiga Plants**__ 1. Balsam Fir- grows in northeastern America from Virginia to Newfoundland 40-80 feet tall. 2.Black Spruce- 25 meters tall short branches needles are blue-green. 3.Douglas-fir- 40-60 feet tall 15-25 feet wide bark is dense hard and stiff. 4.Eastern Red Ceder-10-15 feet tall need full sun to grow. 5.Jack Pine-27 meters tall 16-32 centimeters wide. 6. Paper birch: this bark witch is easy to peal,bark wood and sap used.68 ft. high 7.Siberian Spruce:Can grow to 30 meters high, the trunk is about 1.5 meters in diameter.Needles about 10-18 mm. long. 8.White Fir:Can live up to 300 years, and grows 60-100 ft. tall. The cones grow upright in the top of the tree. cones 2-5 inc. long. 9.White popular:soft light and fairley weak, it does not live verry long, grow best in moist places. 10.White Spruce:needles are 4 sided, and 2.5 cm. grow tall and pyrmid shaped. ​

​ __**Taiga's​ Amazing Animals**__ 1.The American Black Bear:220-594lbs;25 year life span. 2.Bald Eagle: weight is 8 to 11 pounds; and the beak is extreamily strong. 3.Bob Cat:its tail is 4-8 inches long;and great eye vision. 4.Gray wolf:around three feet tall from shoulder to shoulder; 5:Grizzly bear:330lbs to 885 lbs:Verry sharp claws. 6.Long eared owl: around 13 inches;37-40 inc. wing span. 7.Red Fox: 15 to 16 inches tall;adapts to different environments.Female called vixen; male called dog fox. 8.Northern Lynx:almost identical to a normal house cat but bigger. 9.River otter: adapts to cold climate;25-30 in. long from head body. 10.Snowshoe Rabbit:lives in mid-west United States.Fur Helps it hide from predators.27 mph. 1-8 in each litter.



We have hurt the ecosystem by littering and all of the polluting we have done, we have hurt almost every ecosystem by this.
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Created by: Drayton Kirkpatrick Jacob Glance