http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats
Year 4 we would like you to select one habitat and research it. Use this website to help you decide on your habitat. Post some facts about your habitat here.
Remember look at animal, plants, insects, birds and reptiles.
Rockpools are particularly challenging and harsh environments. They are a unique habitat, but only at low tide, when they are filled with salty sea water. They are found at all levels of the rocky shore in the areas between the high and low tide marks. Plants and animals that live here must be able to cope with constantly changing conditions as water temperature, salinity and oxygen level fluctuate. Coping with all this, and with crashing waves, in addition to avoiding predators is no easy task. Yet rockpools can be very biodiverse, teeming with molluscs, shrimps and crabs, fish and anemones.
Desert
Desert and dry scrubland describes any area that receives less than 250mm of rainfall a year. Not just the endless, baking sand dunes of popular conception, it includes arid areas in temperate regions. Plants in this habitat are well adapted to conserving water and often have to survive extremely hot days and cold nights when the temperature plummets. Deserts may appear to have very little life in them, but a closer inspection can reveal high biodiversity.
I chose Desert because i love the animals there 😀 8) 🙂 😉
The coniferous forests of temperate regions undergo warm summers and cool winters, unlike their tropical counterparts. The species aren’t exclusively conifers, there are usually a few broadleaf varieties too. Giant trees – the redwoods of the Americas, the mountain ash of Australia and the kauri of New Zealand – are often a feature, particularly where there is higher rainfall. Britain, perhaps surprisingly for its cold, rainy reputation, doesn’t have the climate to support these giant trees.
About Coniferous forest
Temperate coniferous forest is a terrestrial biome found in temperate regions of the world with warm summers and cool winters and adequate rainfall to sustain a forest. In most temperate coniferous forests, evergreen conifers predominate, while some are a mix of conifers and broadleaf evergreen trees and/or broadleaf deciduous trees. Temperate evergreen forests are common in the coastal areas of regions that have mild winters and heavy rainfall, or inland in drier climates or mountain areas. Coniferous forests can be found in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Many species of trees inhabit these forests including cedar, cypress, douglas-fir, fir, juniper, kauri, pine, podocarpus, spruce, redwood and yew. The understory also contains a wide variety of herbaceous and shrub species.
Structurally, these forests are rather simple, generally consisting of two layers: an overstory and understory. Some forests may support an intermediate layer of shrubs. Pine forests support an herbaceous understory that is generally dominated by grasses and herbaceous perennials, and are often subject to ecologically important wildfires.
Temperate rain forests occur only in seven regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southwestern South America, the rain forests of New Zealand and Tasmania, northwest Europe (small pockets in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Iceland and a somewhat larger area in Norway), southern Japan, and the eastern Black Sea-Caspian Sea region of Turkey and Georgia to northern Iran. The moist conditions of temperate rain forests generally support an understory of mosses, ferns and some shrubs. Temperate rain forests can be temperate coniferous forests or temperate broadleaf and mixed forests.
The temperate coniferous rain forests sustain the highest levels of biomass in any terrestrial ecosystem and are notable for trees of massive proportions, including Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis), Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) and Kauri (Agathis australis). These forests are quite rare, occurring in small areas of North America, southwestern South America and northern New Zealand. The Klamath-Siskiyou forests of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon is known for its rich variety of plant and animal species, including many endemic species.
Chalk grasslands support an incredibly rich and diverse flora. Originally created when the woodlands were cleared, this grassland now relies on grazing and cutting to maintain biodiversity. The thin, lime-rich soils of this grassland habitat are derived from the underlying chalk or limestone rocks, and attract plants that don’t grow in other soils. Home to many beautiful orchids and wildflowers, and the insects they attract including rare blue butterflies, chalk grasslands have been in decline in the UK for the last 50 years. The best examples are found in Wiltshire, Dorset and the South Downs.
I chose a Desert. The plants they have are: Barrel cactus, brittle bush, chain fruit choler, creosote bush, crimson hedgehog cactus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2hnluhs3ik
When I came back home I felt sad because I left this school. I will be writing on this page to have chats with others. Furthermore I had to leave because I have to drive 15 miles to get to this school. I already miss the teachers and my friends. 🙁
We all miss you too. I am very upset that you had to leave us. I hope you are enjoying your new school. Let us know how well you settle into your new school. 🙂
I feel even more sad now. 🙁 🙁 🙁
My first day at school was brilliant! I’ve already made some friends and also we’re going swimming on Thursday! 🙂
It’s fantastic to know that you are happy and have made friends. Wow! Swimming again, it must be a great school to make you so happy. xx
Tommorow is swimming!!! :):):)
Sadly we didn’t get to do swimming because the pool broke. 🙁
Hello Tetiana,
Hope you are having fun.Good Luck 🙂
I am having a lot of fun! 🙂
Hello, Tetiana it is good to hear that you are having fun!:)