Discovering Climates Around the World

By Janie SchlieSecond Grade

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Click on the deer, cloud, or tree to learn about the forest

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Animals in the forest

• The kind of animals that live in the forest are wild and free.

• Bears, deer, moose, raccoons, and insects are found in the forest.

• The forest is a great place to see animals in their habitat.

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Plants and trees in the forest

• Trees like oak, lime, beech, ash, birch, arrow-wood, maple, and more.

• Wild flowers like bluebells, primrose, trillium, ox-lip, lady slippers, and many more.

• You can also find many types of different mushrooms.

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Weather in the forest

• The climate in the forest changes, and the plants and animals must adapt

• The average temperature is 60 degrees F in the daytime and in the nighttime it can get below freezing

• In every month of the year the Forest sees some rainfall

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Click on the snake, sun, or cactus to learn about the desert

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Weather in the Desert

• Deserts have very little rainfall in a year--usually less than 10 inches (25 cm).

• Desert nights tend to be very cold. Taken together

• the temperature makes the desert environment a very harsh one to live in.

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Animals in the Desert• Because food and water are hard to find, desert

animals live in ways that require very little energy and waste little water.

• To help save water during the hot days, many desert animals are "nocturnal", meaning they are active only at night

• Many animals also have protective coverings to keep them from drying out, like the scaly skins of snakes and lizards, and the hard outer coverings of insects.

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Plants in the Desert

• Plants also need to save valuable water.• Plants that live long lives, like the big saguaro

cactus, store water inside their stems. • Tough outer coverings help prevent water loss

and protective spines and thorns help keep animals from stealing a drink.

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Click on the cloud or bear to learn about the arctic

Animals in the Arctic• Many animals who live in the Arctic (like the

Arctic fox) have a coat that thickens and changes color to white to blend into the snow

• Some animals hibernate during the cold season; they go into a very deep, sleep-like state in which their heartbeat slows down.

• Many animals spend the summer months in the Arctic, but leave as the weather turns colder and food becomes scarce

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Weather in the Arctic

• The Arctic is a very cold, windy, and often snowy

• Land within the Arctic Circle is tundra, and it supports less life because of the cold temperatures.

• Long periods of darkness (in the winter) and light (in the summer) also affect Arctic life.

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Click on the cloud, flower, or gorilla to learn about the rainforest

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Weather in the Rainforest• The climate is very humid because of all the

rainfall• The rain forest has lots of rain because it is

very hot and wet.• This climate is found near the equator. That

means that there is more direct sunlight hitting the land and sea there than anywhere else.

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Plants in the Rainforest• Some canopy trees grow over to over 100 meters

high.• Many trees have fruit that provides food for

animals and people. • Rainforest plants are gathered for food or

medicines. • Many 'every day' foods originated in rainforests,

including tomatoes, peppers, corn, rice, coconut, banana, coffee, cocoa, beans and sweet potatoes.

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Animals in the Rainforest• Rainforests are populated with insects, spiders, worms, snakes,

lizards, frogs, birds, and mammals (like sloths and jaguars).

• Different animals live in different areas of the rainforest. Birds live in the canopy (upper leaves of the trees). Large animals (like jaguars) generally live on the forest floor, but others (like howler monkeys and sloths) are live in the trees. Insects are found almost everywhere.

• Many species of rainforest animals are endangered and many other have gone extinct.

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Quiz• Where might you find a bear?

• Which is the coldest climate?

• Which is the hottest climate?

• Which climate has plants that we use for medicine?

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Works Cited

• http://www.ri.net/schools/West_Warwick/manateeproject/Temperateforest/climate.htm

• http://www.windows2universe.org/kids_space/desert.html

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/arcticanimals.shtml

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Animals.shtml

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

• http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/biomerainfor3.htm