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An Introduction to Zoology - Friday, 1st Period
“This week we’re going to take a look at animal habitats,” Cutter began that week’s lecture, once he handed out this week’s notes , “we have covered the evolution of animals a few weeks back when we looked at the Cambrian explosion but I did want to note that habitats began to evolve as animals did, after life began to evolve in the sea ,they began to move into fresh water and then on land in the Ordovician period when plants became a source of food,”
“A habitat is the natural environment where an animal, plant or organism lives,” he continued, “and there are 16 different types of habitats - these are Artic, Aquatic, Coastal, Desert, Manmade Deserts, Forest, Grassland, Tundra, Mountain Ranges, Steppes, Wetlands, Microhabitats, Extreme Habitats, Deep Oceans, Volcanos and outer space,”
“Most resources will officially list between six and eight habitats,” he explained, “and the ones that we’re going to cover today in particular are Polar, Tundra, Evergreen Forests, Seasonal Forests, Grasslands, Deserts, Rainforests, and Oceans,”
“Polar habitats are found at the North and South Pole and they form at the highest latitudes on Earth while tundra is part of the polar habitat that is on land and not covered in ice, in the South Pole you can find colonies of penguins, leopard seals and whales and in the North Pole you can find polar bears and narwhals, ” he went on, “and continuing on with the polar themes, evergreen forests are just outside the North Pole and they cover a region from Canada, Northern Europe and Russia and what is notable about this habitat is that they have more trees than anywhere else, here you can find animals such as snowshoe hare and the Canada Lynx,”
“Next we have seasonal forests which are in areas that are found in places around the world that are not to extremely cold, dry or wet. Owls are the main predators here and will feed off a variety of prey ranging from fish and frogs to snakes. Grasslands grow under conditions that are warm enough to support life but are too dry for trees but not dry enough that a desert forms,” he went on, “it is in the grasslands where the largest groups of mammals are found like in the African Savanna, where the herds support the largest land predators such as lions, hyenas and crocodiles,”
“Deserts are habitats that form in the driest places on earth but they don’t always have to be hot, such as deserts like the Gobi Desert in Western China and Antartica and animals such as the fennec fox and the sidewinder snake are particularly well adapt to survive the harsh desert conditions,”
“Tropical Rainforests in particular, are well known for supporting plant life as they are warm, dry and wet and they form near the equator so that they can get as much sunlight as possible and here animals such as the flying lemur have learned to survive in a tropical rainforest where sometimes the trees can grow so thick that light doesn’t reach the ground and so they learn to adapt by flying or gliding through the treetops,”
“And finally the last habitat that we’re going to cover is oceans, which as I explained at the start of the lecture is where animals first evolved so it seems fitting to end with this habitat, while there are some species that can only survive in specific types of water there are those than can survive in nearly every ocean environment like the starfish,”
“For next week’s class I would like you to write a report on a habitat of your choosing and on an animal that lives in it,”
“A habitat is the natural environment where an animal, plant or organism lives,” he continued, “and there are 16 different types of habitats - these are Artic, Aquatic, Coastal, Desert, Manmade Deserts, Forest, Grassland, Tundra, Mountain Ranges, Steppes, Wetlands, Microhabitats, Extreme Habitats, Deep Oceans, Volcanos and outer space,”
“Most resources will officially list between six and eight habitats,” he explained, “and the ones that we’re going to cover today in particular are Polar, Tundra, Evergreen Forests, Seasonal Forests, Grasslands, Deserts, Rainforests, and Oceans,”
“Polar habitats are found at the North and South Pole and they form at the highest latitudes on Earth while tundra is part of the polar habitat that is on land and not covered in ice, in the South Pole you can find colonies of penguins, leopard seals and whales and in the North Pole you can find polar bears and narwhals, ” he went on, “and continuing on with the polar themes, evergreen forests are just outside the North Pole and they cover a region from Canada, Northern Europe and Russia and what is notable about this habitat is that they have more trees than anywhere else, here you can find animals such as snowshoe hare and the Canada Lynx,”
“Next we have seasonal forests which are in areas that are found in places around the world that are not to extremely cold, dry or wet. Owls are the main predators here and will feed off a variety of prey ranging from fish and frogs to snakes. Grasslands grow under conditions that are warm enough to support life but are too dry for trees but not dry enough that a desert forms,” he went on, “it is in the grasslands where the largest groups of mammals are found like in the African Savanna, where the herds support the largest land predators such as lions, hyenas and crocodiles,”
“Deserts are habitats that form in the driest places on earth but they don’t always have to be hot, such as deserts like the Gobi Desert in Western China and Antartica and animals such as the fennec fox and the sidewinder snake are particularly well adapt to survive the harsh desert conditions,”
“Tropical Rainforests in particular, are well known for supporting plant life as they are warm, dry and wet and they form near the equator so that they can get as much sunlight as possible and here animals such as the flying lemur have learned to survive in a tropical rainforest where sometimes the trees can grow so thick that light doesn’t reach the ground and so they learn to adapt by flying or gliding through the treetops,”
“And finally the last habitat that we’re going to cover is oceans, which as I explained at the start of the lecture is where animals first evolved so it seems fitting to end with this habitat, while there are some species that can only survive in specific types of water there are those than can survive in nearly every ocean environment like the starfish,”
“For next week’s class I would like you to write a report on a habitat of your choosing and on an animal that lives in it,”
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