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What characterizes “winter”?
Temperatures drop / Days become shorter/
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How do animals and plants adapt to winter conditions?
Animals gain tighter and thicker fur, and the color changes to adapt to the landscape. In
some cases, animals hibernate through out the season to save energy.
Plants lose their leafs and flowers, and in some cases, plants hibernate as well, waiting
beneath the ice for the sun to come out again.
LILLY JOSE LUIS STIAN JUDITH
Outdoor Education spring 2014
3. •
Producers/Consumers
Producers are plants, moss and so on, and theirs function is to provide foood for consumers
through out the season. / Consumers either adapt, hibernate or migrate. In this category
we can include mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds.
4. Degraders
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Degraders
They are fungae, insects, and bacterias.
They degrade plants and organic
material to grow, and they die once
they move on leaving nothing
behind.
5. Environmental factors
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Environmental Factors
In environmental factors we can include the type of soils present in the area, the kind of
trees and plants we can find, and in this particular case, we can observe that the moss
present in the lake is enabling the growing of trees and vegetation within the area of
the lake, starting a process that will, eventually, cover the lake completeley with trees
and moss.
6. Tracks or remnants of
animals
In here we can see the animal tracks we
found in the area. We conlcude the tracks
belonged to the deers and hares present in
the area.
7. Human
impact
In the are we could find clear signs of human impact and
activities, such as brdiges to cross over the stream, we
could find benches to sit in front of the lake. And we
could find a small storeage place near the lake.
