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Colorado Life Zones

5. 1. Alpine. Prairie. Colorado Life Zones. 2. Foothills. 3. Montane. 4. Subalpine. 6. Riparian. Colorado Life Zones. Alpine 11,500 +ft. Sub alpine 10,000 – 11,500 ft. Montane 8,000 – 10,000 ft. Foothills 5,500 – 8,000 ft. Riparian. Plains 3,500 – 5,500 ft.

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Colorado Life Zones

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  1. 5. 1. Alpine Prairie Colorado Life Zones 2. Foothills 3. Montane 4. Subalpine 6. Riparian

  2. Colorado Life Zones Alpine 11,500 +ft. Sub alpine 10,000 – 11,500 ft. Montane 8,000 – 10,000 ft. Foothills 5,500 – 8,000 ft. Riparian Plains 3,500 – 5,500 ft.

  3. Influences on the Life Zones • Elevation • Climate • Soils (Dirt) • Threats • Animals • Plants • Food Web

  4. Subalpine Life Zone

  5. Subalpine Life Zone Alpine 11,500 +ft. Subalpine 10,000 – 11,500 ft. Montane 8,000 – 10,000 ft. Foothills 5,500 – 8,000 ft. Riparian Plains 3,500 – 5,500 ft.

  6. What Is It Like In The Subalpine? Winter is LONG and summer is SHORT. Snow begins in early fall and stays until early summer in the shade of the forest. Climate Temperature Stays below freezing (18-24 F) in the winter, a little cooler than the Montane Zone in the summer (62-78 F) Geography Located between montane and alpine. This zone is mostly forested with some meadows. Deep soils in flat meadows help grasses and shrubs grow. Trees grow better in less wet, more rocky soils on the slopes of the valleys. Soils

  7. What kinds of plants grow in the Subalpine? ?

  8. Lodgepole Pine Limber Pine Engelmann Spruce Subalpine Fir There are 4 different trees in the Subalpine What adaptation do all these trees have in common?

  9. What kinds of animals live in the Subalpine? ?

  10. Chipmunks Marten

  11. Porcupine • Eats plants during summer and eats tree bark in the winter time • They have between 15,000 and 30,000 quills • Nocturnal animal • Good swimmer – quills keep it afloat! • It cannot throw its quills!

  12. Snowshoe Hare Why does the Snowshoe Hare change colors with the seasons?

  13. Bighorn Sheep

  14. Toads & Frogs Trout live in the small streams.

  15. Food Web In The Subalpine Plants eaten by small Animals. Coyote eats the rabbits Weasels eat the rabbits Coyote eats the weasel

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