Today we watched a movie! They were the Planet Earth movies, so theirs like a bunch of them and all of them ore about one specific biome Ms. Komatsubara chose Great Plains and Jungle (we didnt watch the whole thing).
GREAT PLAINS:
-Grass covers a quarter of all of the land in the earth
-Grass is udestructible
-Great Plains are found in North Amarica, India, Africa, Tibet, the artic, and more..
-North America: Bison live in the North American plains. Male bison can weigh up to 1 ton. Before there were 60 million bison, 10 years ago there were only one thousand because their habitats decresing and because of hunting. Now there are a little bit more than one thousand. In springtime the flowers bloom and it's really pretty.
-India: Elephants live in the Indian Plains. There, there is really tall called elaphant grass and it's taller than elephants. Its the tallest grass in the world.
-Africa: When the elephant grass is gone the elephants migrate hundreds of miles to find more food and water while they are traveling they are very thirsty and hungry. They stop at waterholes with not very much water. They share the water with eacother and other animals icluding lions. Lions dont usally eat elephants, but they are very hungy as well.It is very rare but sometimes a lion will eat an elephant, the elephant would last all of the lions a whole week. Insome parts of Africa their are flooded grass lands where baboons live. The baboons swim in the water, drink the water,and eat grass and snails.
-Tibet: During the winter theseplins are cold and icy and during he summer they have very little grass. One of the animals that live their are callled the Piaka. The Piaka are rodents and they live underground. Sometimes birds take over the Piakas homes. Tibetin foxes hunt the Piaka.
-Artic Tundra: The Artic Tundra plains is very cold and snowy in the winter, and very green and grasy in the summer. At springtime 5 million snow geese to the artic tundra to lay their eggs and eat the grass. The Arrtic Fox hunts the geese eggs. In summertime the geese hatch, the artic fox cubs are born at the same time. Not all of the cubs and geese survive. In late summer the geese start their journey to the Gulf of Mexico for the winter. The artic wolf also live in the artic tundra. they have a hard time finding food. They hunt carribu but its hard to find them since their always migrating.
-As you read this you probly realized many animals depend on grass for their survival.
JUNGLE:
-When a tree falls inthe jungle, their is more sunlight,so new plants grow over the fallen tree. After 4 years you can't even tell that a tree fell.
-The top of the rainforest is called the canopy. This is where alot of the animals in the rain forest live.
-Fig trees grow in jungles all around the world and year round, they fed many animals, including many diffrent species of monkeys.
-Many tree frogs and leep frogs live in the rain forest, most of them live in the canopy of the rain forest,to stay safe from predetors. All of the frogs have a diffrent croak.
-In the rainforest it rains more than it does anywhere else in the world
These movies were awsome because some of the things that they showed were things that most people never get a chance to see in their life and as you can see I learned A LOT in these movies.
Today we started a book called The Wave by Todd Strasser
