Friday, 12 June 2009

Taiga ecosytem by Icetea







TAIGA
Further than the north of central Asia is a belt of a forest called Taiga (steppes).Taigas are often in high countries like Russia, Scandinavia and Canada. The taiga biome is the largest biome in the world. Lots of conifers grow there. The winters are cold, summers are hot. Life in the taiga is cold, really cold. And it snows. Over many years evergreen species have gained adaptions to improve their chances of surviving the taiga.

The Animals:
Ants, arctic foxes, arctic hare, Arctic wolf, badger, bald eagle, beaver, black bear, brown bear, Canada goose, caribou, doll sheep, deer, earth worm, ermine, fox, gray wolf, great horned owl, husky, lemming, lynx, malamute, moose, mosquito, musk ox, muskrat, red tailed hawk, reindeer, scorpion, short-tailed weasel, snow goose, snowy owl, squirrel, weasel, white, tailed, deer, wolf, wolverine and woodland caribou.

Names
A taiga is also called a boreal forest or northern forest, coniferous forest is a cold woodland or forest. Taiga is the Russian word for forest.

Where
The taiga biome covers large parts of Canada, Europe and Asia. The taiga biome stretches over Eurasia and North America.

Climate
Here is some information about the weather in a taiga. The temperature in the winter is about -fifty four C° to 1 C°, in the summers its mostly warm and they are mostly very short, just about 50-100 frost free days.

Human
There are some humans who live in the taiga. Of course they don’t have like electrical stuff like a TV or something like that. And they cannot just go to the supermarket and buy food or something they have to hunt the animals.

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