Biomes Homework Part 2

Forest:
"Intact, the Amazon produces half its own rainfall through the moisture it releases into the atmosphere. Eliminate enough of that rain through clearing, and the remaining trees dry out and die"

Why are the trees able to adapt to the atmosphere change and store more moisture once it is released into the atmosphere that why it doesn't suffer during the period where there is no moisture?

This quote about the trees made me kind of connect it to my project in Margret's class, which is on the topic of overpopulation. I believe the same thing is going to happen to us once we reach a population of 10billion people. The resources that we have will be used by those who get it and those who luck out will just die off.

Dessert:
"They were, we'd been told, wild and unpredictable and as hard and unforgiving as the sands of the desert"

What did they mean by "as hard and unforgiving as the sands of the desert"?

Even though I don't fully understand what the African people were referring to in the quote above I like the way they used a metaphor as a way to make the comparison rather than just stating they were similar and how.

Fresh Water:
"The trouble, as farmers see it, came to a boiling point in 1997. That's the year coho salmon were accorded federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, which would entitle them to minimum flows of water. In 2001 tensions came to a dramatic head when the federal government shut off irrigation water to some 1,400 Klamath Reclamation Project farmers, including Kandra."

What is irrigation water? Why did it make farmers so mad?

This brings me back to the overpopulation topic that I was talking about above, it kind of sucks to think about but we are now in the same predicament that the animals have somewhat been in for a long time. Before a lot of us have disagreed with the laws against haunting certain animals such as the farmers in the quote above, but once something small turns into something massive the outcome is never to good.

Biomes Homework

Post at least 1 question for each biome and try to find an answer for it

Freshwater:
A.What happens to the different species living in the freshwater biome, do they have to adapt to maintain survival in the different zones?
What is the soil like near fresh water?
A:The soil is partially sandy and made up of a few different sediments.


Marine
coral reefs are dieing what does that mean for the ocean?
A.Since coral reefs are a part of the Marine food chain, and with out enough coral reefs the species would began to die. Also a lot of water life such as fish feed off of the coral reefs and make homes from them that if the reefs began to die off that would affect the entire food chain.


Desert
Where do animals in the dessert get water from?
What is the minimal percentage of rainfall the dessert will get?
A: In the American deserts they can get up to 28 cm a year is pretty much the highest percent the dessert would get . "The rain fall in these deserts is very low and is sometimes concentrated in short bursts between long rainless periods."


Forest
What seems to be the most popular plants that live in the forest biome?
A: There are a lot of orchids, passionflowers, ferns, bamboos, and banana plants.

Grassland
What is a positive attribute to the grassland biome that is good for haunting?
All of the grasslands grass is primarily growing and it all grows to the same hieght making it easier for predators to move around in.

Tundra:
Why are the plants somewhat shorter in the Tundra rather than the other biomes?
A:Because the soil in the Tundra biome is so poor the soil is not as deep, which makes the growth spurt for the plants and its reproduction stage cut short. The Tundra biome is also one of the coldest of all the biomes.

Schedule For Project Completion

Friday: Begin Final Draft of typed report on my ecosystem

Including
-Climate
-Soil
-Water Availability
-Wildlife
-Geography
-Detailed figure of the food web for my ecosystem

Saturday: Continue working on my Final Draft typed report

Sunday Finish Google sketch up model completely

-Fit sketch to scale (1in=10ft)
-Label all plants accurately to legend

Monday
Have project completely done , in correct sizing for print.

Tuesday
Turn complete project in .

My Goals For Final Draft

1. Make garden fit to scale

2. Make trees grouped in sets

3.Make Pato 66ft by 22 ft

4.Label legend to garden

3 Ecosystem Write Ups