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Chaparral

Chaparral. By Katie Robinson. Where it is .

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Chaparral

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  1. Chaparral By Katie Robinson

  2. Where it is • The chaparral biome is found in many continents. The chaparral biome is in the west coast of the United States and the west coast of South America. It is also located in the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean. • Chaparrals can be found from 30° to 50° N and 30° to 40° S latitudes.

  3. Temperatures • In winter the Chaparral climate, is a mild and moist, but not rainy. In the summer it is very hot and dry. The temperature is usually mild but it can get very hot or nearly freezing. The temperature range is between 30° and 100° F. • The biome only gets about 10-17 inches of rain all year, and most of it comes during the winter.

  4. Animals in a Chaparral biome • Although the black-tailed jackrabbit is sometimes called a rabbit it is really a hare. Hares are different from rabbits because their babies, called leverets, are born with all their fur, and their eyes open. • The grey fox lives in the chaparral of California and Mexico. A grey fox is the only member of the dog species that can climb trees. • The western spotted skunk and skunks in general can delay the birth date until food is plentiful. This adaptation makes the population stay high.

  5. Plants in Chaparral biome • King Protea - Protea can take moisture in through its leaves. This adaptation is good because where it grows there isn't much rain. • Mountain Mahogany - Have the adaptation of dwarfing (getting smaller to survive). It dwarfs because of drought, changes of climate, and the poor soil it has to grow in. • Common Sagebrush - When water is hard to find, it uses deep tap roots to find water. When the rain is plentiful it has shallow roots that are spread out below the surface to absorb the water.

  6. A threat to environment • Human development is the biggest threat to chaparral. People are clearing the chaparral for many purposes: • Grazing • Logging • Building dams • Agriculture • And urbanization. • You would think fire or drought would be a threat to the chaparral, but many plants have adapted for the fire because they happen often.

  7. Belize Barrier Reef • The Belize Barrier Reef is part of a 900 kilometer long Meso-American Barrier Reef ,which goes along areas of Cancun and Guatemala. Belize’s Barrier Reef covers a total of 237,962 acres. • Belize has a high species diversity for the area, with about 65 coral species and over 300 fish species, compared with just over 70 coral species and about 520 fish species in the Caribbean as a whole. It holds a bunch of homes to a great amount of species.

  8. Plants that involve reefs • Coral reefs are structures that are produced by living animal colonies, found in marine waters containing few nutrients. Reefs grow best in shallow, clear, sunny and salt waters. • Mangrove trees- the trees filter the salt out using there roots. They have narrow vessels that are evenly spread throughout the wood. This works to withstand damage to the bark and outer trunk. They make homes for fish.

  9. Animals in the reef • Green turtle- have hard shells to protect them for predators. They also can swim very fast. • Queen Angel – this fish really doesn’t have an adaptation to help itself but it can hide in the reefs to protect itself.

  10. Threat • The biggest threat to reefs are typically mankind. We leave trash and we pollute the ocean more and more each day. • Some other threats are global warming ,which is change the water levels and PhD levels.

  11. Sources • http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/chaparral.htm • http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/00473/chaparral.html • http://www.divetime.com/articles/Scuba_Diving_Trivia/The_Worlds_3_Largest_Reefs_185.html • http://www.chaacreek.com/belize-barrier-reef/ • http://www.caracol.net/barrier-reef-reserve-system-belize.htmlhttp://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/mangrove_trees.htm

  12. Picture sources • http://scientopia.org/blogs/voltagegate/files/2011/09/800px-Fynbos-landscape-2.jpg • http://toursholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/coral-reef-at-belize.jpg • http://www.cepolina.com/photo/nature/plants/mangrove/2/mangrove_tree_branches.jpg • http://www.coralreefinfo.com/images/coral_reef.jpg • http://www.thatpetplace.com/images/presentation/P29126.jpg

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