North America country details

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Natural Vegetation

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Wildlife


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The Tundra Vegetation.The Coniferous or Taiga

Vegetation.The Temperate Grasslands or the

Prairies.Mixed Forests

Mediterranean Vegetation.Desert Vegetation.Tropical Forests.


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This type of vegetation is found in areaswhich experience the arctic climate.

The vegetation comprise mosses, lichen,

grasses, and dwarf bushes.The subsoil remains frozen throughout

the year.

Fur-bearing animals like polar bear, muskox, caribou, and Arctic fox are commonland animals.

Some animals here have thick layers of

fat under their skin.


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Just south of the tundra is a broad belt of

cone-bearing trees with needle-like leaves

and long slender trunks.

The higher slopes of the western cordillerasin British columbia and califonia have

Douglas fir, cedar, and giant sequoia trees.

Bears, wolves, minks, silver foxes, mooses,

elks, and beavers are commonly found here. This region receives more snowfall than the

tundra.


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The prairies are the natural vegetation of the

interior parts of North America in the cool

temperate latitudes.

Very little summer rainfall can support onlythe rich, tall grasses, which occur in vast

stretches.

Mustangs, rabbits, gophers, skunks, prairie

falcon, and bald eagle are some commonbirds and animals found here.


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The region south of the taiga belt and theeast of the prairies has mixed vegetation orforests with both deciduous and coniferoustrees.

The warmer southern areas have deciduoustrees like oak, maple, chestnut, beech andbirch.

These trees shed their leaves in the autumn

and yield hardwood. The coniferous softwood trees like the pine,

spruce, fir, and larch are found in the coolerregions.


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The west coast of North America, especially

the Californian coast, experiences hot dry

summers and cool wet winters.

The cork oak, olive, Mediterranean pine,laurel, and cedar are the trees found in this

region.

Fruit trees such as orange, peach, apricot,

lemon, and walnut thrives. Fruit orchards have replaced much of the

original scrub- like vegetation called

chaparral.


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The hot dry deserts of Mexico and the USA

have little or no vegetation other than

cactus, coarse grass, and spiny bushes such

as the creosote bush. The saguaro is a giant cactus native to

southern USA and Mexico.

It has ribbed, branched stems.

The wildlife mainly consists of snakes,lizards, scorpions, desert rats, and desert

foxes.


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The tropical regions of the central America

has hardwood vegetation consisting mainly of

mahogany, palms, rubber, and cocoa trees.

Instead a variety of birds, monkeys, insects,and reptiles thrive in the forests.


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