Temperate Forest Biome

Pre-Activity Preparation
Before you start, record down these pieces of information.

Assigned biome:	Temperate Forest
Team member/Job distribution:	Sze Ying, Madgalene, Izaaz, Daniel and Joshua
Task master	Sze Ying
Time keeper
Scribe

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[Session 1]

Task #1 My Ecology Glossary List (10 min)

• Make a glossary list of the following important terms by finding their definitions. Give only the definition that you deem best.

Task #2 My Biome Profile (50 min)

• In this task, you will collect information on the physical factors of your assigned biome.
• You may collect useful pictures, links and videos that you found to help you explain your answers clearly to your teachers and friends.
• You must provide the link that you used by adding a caption.

Section	Guiding Questions
1. Brief description of biome	· Where is your biome found? Show the location of your biome on a map. · What are the countries that have your biome? List them down. · What are their locations on Earth?
2. Physical factors in the biome	· What is the most special part about each of the physical factors in your biome that is different from others? · Briefly describe the physical features of your biome. Keep your description for each physical factor to three lines only.
3. Organisms and plants in biome	· What are some organisms and plants that are found in your biome typically? · Name and show some pictures of the animals that can be found in your assigned biome. Select and show about five outstanding examples that you find most interesting.
4. Adaptations of the plants and animals to the biome	· How do the physical factors affect the type of organism living there? - Plants : eg , sweet gum . :) The physical factor , temperature . The temperature influence the growth response of the sweet gum . - Animals : eg , fox . The physical factor , water . Water is very important for every organism . Without water , the fox won't be able to live well and it may die . · What are some special features or adaptations that the organisms have that helps them live in their habitat? - Plants : eg , maple . :) The special features : It changes colour every season . :D . The different colours make it easy to spot .. Interesting ... :) - Animals : eg , bald eagle . Adaptations : Keen eyesight . The bald eagle can see very far . Its eyesight can help it to find it's prey . It makes it easier for the bald eagle to find food . · Name and show some pictures of the animals that can be found in your assigned biome. View Full Size Image Go to fullsize image Go to fullsize image - The Fox , The Beaver And The Bald Eagle . · Select and shw about five outstanding examples that you find most interesting. Go to fullsize image Go to fullsize image Go to fullsize image 1. The oak tree amaze me . The beautiful colours and how it change every season . :) 2. This cute tree called the Sweet Gum tree surprises me . I love its cute name . :D 3. The fact that the bald eagle has a very keen eyesight shocked me . It can see things very far away and i mean very far ... Go to fullsize image Go to fullsize image 4. One of the interesting facts is that the temperature influence the growth response of the sweet gum tree . :) 5. The quite interesting fact is how important water is the every organism living on planet earth because the organism might die without it .. :(

Task #1 Ecology Glossary List

Biome

A grouping terrestrial ecosystems on a given continent that are similar in vegetation structure, physiognomy, features of the environment and characteristics of their animal communities

Habitat

The term "population" is preferred to "organism" because, while it is possible to describe the habitat of a single black bear, it is also possible that we may not find any particular or individual bear but the grouping of bears that constitute a breeding population and occupy a certain biogeographical area. Further, this habitat could be somewhat different from the habitat of another group or population of black bears living elsewhere. Thus it is neither the species nor the individual for which the term habitat is typically used.

Task #2 My Biome Profile

My Biome:
1. Brief description of biome:
Biomes are climatically and geographically defined as similar climatic conditions on the Earth, such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms,[1[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome#cite_note-0|]]] and are often referred to as ecosystems.


2. Physical factors in the biome:

Physical factors	Description
Light	Light at temperate forests varies. The more the trees, the lesser the sunlight as sunlight cannot penetrate through.
Temperature	The temperate deciduous forest has a temperate climate, with summer highs of around 80 to 90° Fahrenheit (27 to 32° Celsius). Winter highs are around 30 to 55° Fahrenheit (-1 to 15° Celsius).
Water	Water in a temperate forests is deeply affected by the altitude, number of trees and weather of the forest.
Air	Air in temperate forests are very humid.The deciduous forest regions are exposed to warm and cold air masses
Mineral salt and salinity	N/A
pH	N/A

3. Organisms and plants in biome:
For some of the animals living in Temperate Forest:
• Ants
• Bald Eagle
• Beaver
• Black Bear
• Brown Bear
• Fox

For some of the plants living in Temperate Forest:
• American Beech
• Carpet Moss
• Common Lime
• Lady Fern
• Pecan
• White Oak

4. Adaptations of the plants and animals to the biome
5. Bibliography
List down all the resources that you have used. An example has been listed for you.
Temperate Forest animals: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/tempdecid/tempdecid.shtml
Temperate Forest plants: http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/deciduous_plant_page.htm

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[Session 2]

Task #1 Compare and contrast the biomes (30 minutes)

• Go about the wikipages that your friends have compiled.
• Based on the information on your wikipage and that found in your partner group’s wikipage, compare and contrast the two biomes to decide on the physical factor that could have caused the difference.

An example can be seen here.

Adaptation	My biome: Temperate forest	My partner biome: Tropical rainforest	Reason
Leaf shape	Many tropical rainforest leaves have a drip tip. It is thought that these drip tips enable rain drops to run off quickly	Conifer needles have a thick, waxy coating of cutin that significantly reduces water loss. Needles also have much tighter stomatal closure.	Tropical rainforests experiences high rain fall. However, in temperate forests, plants experiences extreme cold and low rainfall in the winter.

Task #3 Virtual gallery walk (30 minutes)

• Go about looking at your friends’ biome and the compare and contrast table.

Ask them any questions that you may have and make suggestions for them on how to improve their work. Use the discussion tab above.