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Utah’s Plants and Animals
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Environments
• Wetlands-land that is wet. Also called Riparian areas.
• Forests-areas covered by trees.
• Deserts-land that receives less than ten inches of rainfall a year.
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Wonderful Wetlands
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Riparian areas are found near streams and lakes
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Fish are animals that live in water.
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Insects have six legs.
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Birds are animals that have feathers.
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Muskrats use cattails for food and building lodges.
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In winter, frogs go into hibernation, an inactive, sleep-like state.
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The Great Salt Lake
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Invertebrates are animals without a backbone.
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Migrate-moving to another place to find food.
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Forests are large areas of land that are covered with trees.
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Deciduous trees lose leaves in the fall and grow new ones in spring.
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Coniferous trees are evergreens. They stay green all year.
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A porcupine is a forest animal that eats the bark of trees.
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Deer migrate during the winter to places where there is food.
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Ponderosa Pine trees are found in the Colorado Plateau region.
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Aspen trees are found in the mountains.
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Spruce and Fir trees are found at high elevations in the mountains.
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Squirrels keep busy gathering seeds and nuts.
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A moose likes to live near water in the forest.
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Hummingbirds are busy collecting nectar from the mountain flowers.
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Deserts are areas that receive less than 10 inches of rain per year.
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A Prickly Pear Cactus has a waxy covering and sharp spines.
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Sagebrush is used by desert animals for food and shelter.
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Pinyon Pine trees
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Jackrabbits live in deserts. They use their ears to hear enemies.
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Coyotes are one of the predators that live in the desert.
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Reptiles are cold-blooded and they have scaly skin and backbones.
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Lizards are reptiles.
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The tortoise lives in the hot desert.
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Classification
• Look at the outside appearance of an animal.
• Notice the size, shape, texture, and color.
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Plants and Animals
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Vertebrates have a backbone.Invertebrates do not have one.
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Cold-blooded animals body temperature changes.
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Warm-blooded animals body temperature stays about the same.
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We can classify Utah’s animals.
• Birds
• Mammals
• Insects
• Fish
• Reptiles
• Amphibians