Temperate Deciduous Forest

1. Temperate Deciduous Forest Brady Creamer Connor Mullin Viktor Moravek

2. Location • Eastern United States • Canada • Europe • China • Japan

3. Climate • -30°C to 30°C • yearly average is 10°C • hot summers • cold winters

4. Defining Features • Four seasons • Leaves change colors in autumn, fall off in the winter, grow back in spring • Some animal s hibernate

5. Plant Adaptation • There are many types of trees and plants, during the cold winters, their leaves fall off which protect the earth and smaller plants. • The trees are equipped with thick bark that protects them from the winters

6. Animal Adaptation • Some animals hibernate during the winter • For example, some rodents store up fat, then hibernate during cold winters

7. Threats • Air pollutants from fuels - destroying forests, killing wildlife and poisoning the soil • Acid rain - damages their leaves and causes production of smaller fruit and less seeds used in reproduction • Clearing land for use in agriculture and clear cut logging - destroyed and continue to destroy millions of trees • Mining - damaged to the extent that forests do not re-grow on the damaged and depleted soils

8. Clear-cut logging Air Pollution

9. Mining in Germany Fall Foliage

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