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An Introduction to Zoology - Friday , 1st Period
“Last week we took a look at habitats,” Cutter began that week’s class, “this week we’re going to look at ecosystems,” he said as he handed out his usual stack of notes for the class, “An ecosystem includes all living things, plants and animals and organisms in a particular environment and how they interact with each other,” he explained, “this also includes their interactions with non living environments such as weather, earth, sun, soil climate and atmosphere,”
“There are eight main ecosystems,” he continued, “these are temperate forests that exist in the Eastern United States and most of Europe, these include hardwood trees that lose their leaves in Autumn, temperate forests are also home to animals including racoons, deers and salamanders. Tropical rain forests include Central and South American jungles and includes many species, characteristics of these include tall, tense trees where dense vegetation blocks out the sunlight on the forest floor and most plants are evergreen,” he explained, “Then we have desert ecosystems where annual rainfall ranges from zero to 10 inches and includes plants such as cacti, sagebrush and mesquite and animals tend to burrow to escape the dessert heat and search for food after dark.”
“Next we have grasslands which is where grasses and herbs tend to be found more readily than forests, the grass provides food but doesn’t offer much protection from animals from predators, then we have the Taiga which is found in northern circumpolar forested regions characterized by long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation,”
“The last ecosystems we have to cover are the Tundra, which is where trees grow little or not at all due to the extreme latitudes and has a short growing season that produces little, The Chaparral is a coastal biome found in California and consists of plants that are mostly oak, grapes, olives and figs and eucalyptus, the plants here are usually dormant in the dry summer but thrive in the wet winter and finally the last ecosystem left to cover is the ocean and the ocean has more saltwater than fresh water and starts with plants and plankton and works it way up smaller fish and crustaceans to whales and dolphins,”
“There are eight main ecosystems,” he continued, “these are temperate forests that exist in the Eastern United States and most of Europe, these include hardwood trees that lose their leaves in Autumn, temperate forests are also home to animals including racoons, deers and salamanders. Tropical rain forests include Central and South American jungles and includes many species, characteristics of these include tall, tense trees where dense vegetation blocks out the sunlight on the forest floor and most plants are evergreen,” he explained, “Then we have desert ecosystems where annual rainfall ranges from zero to 10 inches and includes plants such as cacti, sagebrush and mesquite and animals tend to burrow to escape the dessert heat and search for food after dark.”
“Next we have grasslands which is where grasses and herbs tend to be found more readily than forests, the grass provides food but doesn’t offer much protection from animals from predators, then we have the Taiga which is found in northern circumpolar forested regions characterized by long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation,”
“The last ecosystems we have to cover are the Tundra, which is where trees grow little or not at all due to the extreme latitudes and has a short growing season that produces little, The Chaparral is a coastal biome found in California and consists of plants that are mostly oak, grapes, olives and figs and eucalyptus, the plants here are usually dormant in the dry summer but thrive in the wet winter and finally the last ecosystem left to cover is the ocean and the ocean has more saltwater than fresh water and starts with plants and plankton and works it way up smaller fish and crustaceans to whales and dolphins,”
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