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Winter is characterized by dropping temperatures and shorter days. Animals and plants adapt by growing thicker fur and changing color for animals, and losing leaves and flowers and sometimes hibernating for plants. Producers like plants provide food, while consumers like mammals and birds adapt, hibernate, or migrate. Degraders like fungi and bacteria degrade organic material. Environmental factors in the area include soil type, plant life, and moss growing around the lake. Animal tracks in the area belonged to deer and hares. Signs of human impact were bridges, benches, and a storage area near the lake.
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The document summarizes the Piedmont region of Georgia. It describes the Piedmont as located between the mountains and coastal plain, covering the middle of the state. The Piedmont features rolling hills, forests, lakes, rivers and a mild climate. Common animals include wild turkeys, raccoons, squirrels, deer and birds which have adaptations like fur and claws that allow them to survive the region's hot summers and cold winters. Common plants include kudzu, pine trees, oak trees and dogwood trees, which have thick bark and the ability to drop leaves to conserve water.
Animals and their Environment.pdf
The document discusses habitats and how animals and plants adapt to their environments. It defines habitat as the environment where an animal lives, including biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) components that provide food and shelter. Abiotic factors include physical conditions like temperature and chemicals like oxygen. Habitats can be terrestrial or aquatic. Autotrophs like plants produce their own food via photosynthesis, while heterotrophs consume other organisms. Animals and plants exhibit structural, behavioral, protective, and mimicry adaptations to survive in their habitats. Migration and hibernation are behavioral adaptations. Camouflage provides protection from predators through coloration adaptations. Habitats and adaptations are interdependent - plants and animals
ECOSYSTEM HABITAT NICHE , FOOD CHAIN & WEB
This document discusses ecosystems and the interactions between organisms and their environment. It defines an ecosystem as a place where animals, plants, and non-living materials exist together. It describes abiotic factors as non-living components like temperature and biotic factors as living components that interact, like plants and animals. Food chains and webs are discussed as the transfer of energy between organisms, with producers, consumers, and decomposers comprising different trophic levels. The document also addresses how ecosystems change over time due to natural events, animals, and human activities and the effects this can have like species accommodation, migration, or possible extinction.
Ppt on living things
1. Producers, consumers, scavengers, and decomposers are the four main categories of living things. Producers like plants can make their own food through photosynthesis, while consumers depend on other organisms for food.
2. Scavengers feed on dead animals, acting as environment cleaners. Decomposers like fungi and bacteria break down dead organisms, recycling nutrients in the soil.
3. Plants, animals, and decomposers are interdependent. Pollinators like bees help plants reproduce, and animals disperse seeds. Decomposers break down waste and make nutrients available to plants.
Forest resources
Forests are communities of trees, shrubs, and plants that cover large areas of land. Forests provide oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide, and support wildlife. There are several types of forests in the Philippines, including mangrove forests found along coastlines, beach forests along sandy coasts, and dipterocarp forests which cover most of the country. Forests play an important economic and environmental role by providing resources like lumber and paper and regulating climate.
Biomes prj
The document provides information about teaching biology standard 5.2 which involves inferring the types of organisms native to specific biomes. It explains that each biome contains a great deal of information and some biomes share similar plant and animal life, making this standard challenging to teach. It then defines what a biome is and provides examples of the major biomes - tundra, desert, grassland, taiga, temperate forest, and rainforest - including characteristics, plants, and animals commonly found in each one. Users can click on individual biomes for more details.
Deciduous biome
The document provides information about the temperate deciduous forest biome. It describes the canopy layer of tall trees, leaf litter on the forest floor, and thick layer of nutrient-rich soil created by decomposition. It discusses the characteristics of deciduous trees, examples of which include oaks, maples and fruit trees. The document outlines the location of deciduous forests globally and describes the four distinct seasons and average temperature and precipitation in these regions. It examines the plant and animal adaptations for survival and lists common species found in temperate deciduous forests. In closing, it discusses threats to these forests from human activities like acid rain, deforestation and invasive species, as well as conservation efforts.
seeddispersal-130926094456-phpajpp02.pdf
Flowering plants have evolved various adaptations for seed dispersal. The main methods are dispersal by wind, water, animals, and explosion. Seeds dispersed by wind have light structures like parachutes that allow them to travel far from the parent plant. Water dispersal occurs in plants like coconuts and water lilies whose seeds can travel for thousands of kilometers across oceans. Animal dispersal involves seeds passing through digestive tracts and being deposited far from the parent in waste. Explosive dispersal uses pods that burst open and shoot out seeds like in peas and beans.
Seed dispersal
Flowering plants have evolved various adaptations for seed dispersal to spread seeds far from the parent plant. The main methods of seed dispersal are by wind, by animals, by water, and by explosion. Seeds dispersed by wind are light with structures like hairs that aid wind transport. Seeds dispersed by animals pass through digestive tracts unharmed and are deposited far from the parent in feces. Seeds dispersed by water may survive ocean currents, while explosive plant pods forcibly eject seeds from the parent.
Biology 1 mohamed sammara
This document provides information about ecology, ecosystems, biomes, and some key biotic and abiotic factors. It discusses ecology as the scientific study of organism interactions and with the environment. An ecosystem is defined as the community of living and nonliving things that interact. There are 8 main terrestrial and aquatic biomes described - tundra, grasslands, deciduous forest, desert, tropical rainforest, freshwater, freshwater wetlands, and marine. Key biotic factors include plants and animals, and abiotic factors include climate, soil type, sunlight, and more. Specific biome examples like temperate forest and desert are also outlined.
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Why winter?
- 1. • What characterizes “winter”? Temperatures drop / Days become shorter/ • 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 • 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 • 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.