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    CONIFEROUS FOREST

    by IKRAM HEJJAJ
    KHALLOUKI.

    CARACTERISTICS
    Long and very cold winters. Abundant precipitation as
    snow. Coniferous forests predominate (pines, spruces)
    There are mammals such as lynx, moose ,deer ,bear

    MAP OF THE CONIFEROUS


    FOREST
    Coniferous forests stretch cold in northern Europe, Asia and
    North America, and the tip of South America, between the
    territories occupied by temperate grasslands and tundra of
    the polar region.

    CLIMATE
    The temperatures of the coniferous forests between 10 C
    and 20 C in summer and -15 C and 5 C in winter.
    Coniferous forests often cover mountainsides. Trees are
    tall and narrow, so snow will slide off the branches
    without breaking them.

    FLORA
    Some of the species that inhabit coniferous forests are cold
    spruces, firs, larches, pines, birches, mosses and ferns as well.
    Usually found tall trees.

    Pine/Pinus pinea

    Abeto/

    Spruce/Abies pinsapo boiss

    Pcea/Picea abies

    Tsuga/Tsuga canadensis

    FLORA

    Fitzroya cupressoides

    Abies alba Mill

    Betula pendula

    Fitzroya cupressoides

    SEQUOIA

    The Coniferous forest, located along the northern


    California coast, contains the largest life-form on Earth!
    The giant Sequoia trees are also the longest-lived life
    form on Earth.

    FAUNA
    Animals best adapted to the vegetation of these forests are beavers, squirrels,
    porcupines, skunks, moose, marmots, hares, lynx, deer, rabbits, black bears
    and wolves.

    Beaver/Castor canadenses

    Skunk/mephitis
    Bear/ursus

    Reindeer o Rangifer tarandus

    FAUNA

    Deer/Hippocamelus antisiensis

    rabbitt/Lepus

    Moose/ Platycerioum

    Wolf/Canis lupus

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