Temperate Deciduous Forests

Broadleaf trees have broad or wide leaves. They don't have needles or needle-like leaves like conifers and other evergreen trees.

Trees in temperate deciduous forests have leaves that change colors and then lose their leaves when the seasons change.

A temperate deciduous forest may consist entirely of deciduous trees or it may also contain some conifers (a mixed forest).

<p>Temperate broadleaf forests are common in the eastern part of the United States, from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Temperate broadleaf forests are found in western and central Europe, parts of Russia, China, Japan, and North and South Korea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Temperate deciduous forests have four distinct seasons and receive precipitation all year round.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>These forests are a moist type of ecosystem or biome.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Each forest area is defined by the dominant species of tree in that area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sugar maple, beech, and yellow birch trees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Farther south, oak trees are the dominant species. Still farther south, oak and hickory trees predominate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Small changes in temperature, average precipitation, and soil conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They change with the seasons. They all have adapted to live with the changes of season and the related changes in weather.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Energy from the sun and photosynthesis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is an abundance of life on the forest floor in these forests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Producers, consumers, and decomposers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Producers include trees, flowering plants, ferns, and mosses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Consumers may be primary consumers—animals that eat producers directly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They may be secondary (2nd level) consumers—animals that eat primary consumers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Or they may be tertiary (3rd level) consumers—animals that eat secondary consumers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The combination of precipitation and seasonal temperature changes determines where these forests are found.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examples include the maple, oak, beech, and other trees, flowering plants, ferns and moss, and a variety of shrubs and bushes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examples include insects, small rodents, birds, deer, foxes, bobcats, wolves, bears, and, in some places, cougars and moose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are fairly large, long-tailed songbirds with a short, very thick bill and a prominent crest. They are omnivores: they eat seeds, berries, and small insects.</p> Signup and view all the answers