Coniferous forest by Ikram

1. CONIFEROUS FOREST
by IKRAM HEJJAJ
KHALLOUKI.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.
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• •Pine/Pinus pinea
• • Abeto/ • Spruce/Abies pinsapo boiss

•Pícea/Picea abies
• Tsuga/Tsuga canadensis

6. FLORA
• Fitzroya cupressoides
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• Abies alba Mill
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• Betula pendula
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Fitzroya cupressoides

7. 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.

8. 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
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• •Skunk/mephitis

•Bear/ursus



Reindeer o Rangifer tarandus

9. FAUNA
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• •Deer/Hippocamelus antisiensis
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• •rabbitt/Lepus
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• •Moose/ Platycerioum
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• •Wolf/Canis lupus