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byCassidy Rivera
Hi, I’m Pock
Who are you?
Welcome to my home. It is part of the Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome.
What is a biome you ask?
Well, a biome is like a community that is made up of all the plants, animals, birds, insects, and trees.
The same biome can be in different places in the world. But they will have the same type of land and weather.
Temperate means mild. We are in between the Tundra Biome and the Tropical Biome.
That means we don’t get really, really cold or really, really hot.
My friend Oscar, told me that deciduous is Latin for “falling down”. That’s what our leaves do.
In the Temperate Deciduous Forest, we have four distinct seasons….
Summer, Autumn, Winter,
and Spring.
As you can see, right now it’s winter.
Hey, do you have anything to eat? Trail mix? A sandwich?
Things get pretty bare around here. There’s not much food in the winter.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
Oh, hi Red! It’s nice to see you. It gets real lonely since a bunch of the birds went south for the winter and most of the animals are hibernating.
This is my friend, Red. She is a fox.
How are you?
Good, good, good. Just trying to find
something the little ones would eat.
I have a sandwich that my
new friend gave me.
Would you like half?
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I think their going to eat me out of
house and home.
You’re welcome.
The little ones must be getting really big.
Sure are. Would you like to see
some pictures of them?
Love to.
Love to.
Photo AlbumPhoto Album
by Red Foxby Red Fox
The BabiesThe Babies
ScrambleAge 2 months
FlowerAge 2 months
The FamilyThe Family
PointsCousin who lives in
Australia
YowlerUncle who lives in
China
The FamilyThe Family
HunterBrother-in-Law who lives in
Vermont
PoeGreat Aunt who lives in
England
The FamilyThe Family
Kranx3rd cousin twice removed who lives in
Russia
Wow. They are getting so big.
I better get back to the growing ones.
Okay. I’ll see you later.
Bye, bye, bye!
Well, lets go see if Oscar
is still up.
Hey, Oscar are ya up?
Yes, I’m awake. Is there
something you need?
No, I just wanted you to meet my new
friend.
This is Oscar, he’s an owl. Oscar is one of
the few birds that doesn’t fly south for
the winter.
He is also the wisest around.
Would the two of you like to come up and
get warm?
That would be great!
Come on!
Do you like my new photo?
Oh, yes. Who is that?
Would you like to see more of my pictures?
That would be great!
Come here and you can see photos of the
birds that have left for the winter.
ScrapbookScrapbookofof
BirdsBirdsbyby
Oscar OwlOscar Owl
young Spotted Warbler Finch
Metso Bald Eagle
Cedar Waxwing Chick-a-dee
Northern CardinalIn flight
Northern Cardinal
Blue Jay Brown Sided Nut Thrasher
Downey Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird King Fisher
Crowned Kingfisher Owl
Owl Warbler
Spotted_Towhee Adult Swallow with young
That’s a lot of birds. But why
do they fly south for the
winter?
How easy that is to answer. They
fly south because it’s warmer.
That’s very
clever of
them.
Indeed.
What’s that noise!
Oh, my! Oh, my!
Someone’s shaking the
tree.
Bobby, what are you doing?
Oh, sorry guys. I didn’t know
someone was in this tree.
Bobby, why aren’t you
hibernating?
My back was all itchy.
Brrrr, it is extremely cold
out here.
Ahhh, this ain’t so bad.
My cousin, Joe, lives in the Tundra.
It gets 40 below there.
We only get down to 30 degrees here in the Temperate
Deciduous Forest.
Oooh, I desperately miss those summer days when it gets up to 80 degrees.
Hi, Stripe.
Hello.
Do you know what else I
dearly miss?
I miss seeing the forest floor covered with soft
moss and leaves.
I loved the way the ferns and bluebells
grew out of the moist, cool ground.
The ground here is some of the most fertile there is. That means, lots of stuff
can grow here.
Right about here would be the shrub
level.
It would be a little bit brighter and than the
forest floor.
This is where all the berries and bushes
would be.
I remember the mountain laurels, azaleas, and
blackberries.
Ooohohoh! The blackberries.
This is where the understory
would be.
Oh how I miss the little saplings. Those darling,
little, baby trees with their little green leaves.
And all the short, grown up trees,
like the Dogwoods and Hawthorns.
It was definitely brighter and
warmer at this level.
Hey, Stripe, where ya going?
It is of no use to talk to him when
he is like this, Bobby
Bye, Stripe
This is my favorite level of the forest!
This is the canopy.
This is the warmest and driest level
because it gets the most sunlight.
Only the biggest trees can reach up here.
We’re only at the bottom of the canopy. It’s only about 60
feet up. But some of these trees go up to a 100 feet.
It’s hard to tell right now. But this
is a maple tree.
This is also Squint’s home.
That one over there is a Beech tree.
And that one is an oak. Or is it an ash
tree?
It’s so hard to tell during the winter.
I’m going to see if Squint is here.
Get up, sleepy head.
It’s time to get up?
This is Squints. He’s a squirrel. Don’t mind the mess. Squints
saves his food since he isn’t one of the
hibernating animals.
It’s probably time for me to
get up.
Should’nt that acorn go with the
rest of them?
This is my favorite.
What are you doing
here Stripe?
Oh, well, I miss the
warm days.
I miss the leaves and flowers too.
You know what I do
when I start feeling blue?
What is that?
Well, I just look at my pictures of the
seasons and pretend that I’m in
each picture.
Here look.
Spring
How do you do that?
Spring
Well, I start with spring and remember how it gets just a little warmer from winter.
Spring
The snow starts melting and the
trees start to wake up, little buds start
popping out everywhere and the
sap rises in the trees.
Spring
Oooohh! I can almost smell the flowers. Go on!
Go on!
Spring
Then I move on
to summer.
Summer
Remember how summer is the hottest season and how we splash around in the puddles because it
rains so much?
Summer
Yes, and how the leaves get big and
green. And the berries, oh the
delicious berries.
Summer
Boy, you’re going to like the
next picture.
Summer
Wow! Do I ever miss those
hawthorn berries.
Summer
And the blackberries and those raspberries that grew on the
shrub level.
Summer
Yes and then my favorite
season, autumn.
Autumn
When autumn comes the leaves turn red, orange, and yellow. Then the leaves fall
off.
Autumn
I’ve always wondered why the leaves fall off.
Autumn
That has to do with the temperature
change when autumn comes.
Autumn
Let’s go look at the next photo.
Autumn
When it gets a little cooler, the leaves then, start losing their green color, letting the reds,
yellows, and oranges in them shine through.
Autumn
This happens because the trees start to cut off the sap that flows to
their leaves.
Autumn
The trees will store the sap
and nutrients in their roots,
where they will not freeze.
Autumn
Oh I see.
Autumn
Which leads us back to
winter.
Autumn
Which leads us back to
winter.
Winter
You’re right Stripe!
Winter
Winter is where it gets
really cold and everything gets hard.
Winter
Because the ground is frozen, there is less water for the trees. This makes the leaves fall off.
Winter
Does that make you feel better Stripe?
Winter
Yes that makes me feel
great.
Winter
Thank you so much Squints.
Winter
Lets go outside before
I fall asleep again.
Winter
Okay. Lets go.
Hi guys.
Hi Stripe. Hi Squints.
Where did you go Stripe?
Oh, I went to see Squints.
Where is Oscar?
He went to get something.
It was nice talking to you guys but it’s past my bed
time.
Oh, there he is!
I see Stripe is here and Squints is
awake.
But where is Pock?
Oh, um he went to bed.
What do you have there,
Oscar?
Its my scrapbook of animals. Would you
all like to see it?
ScrapbookScrapbookofof
Temperate Temperate Deciduous Deciduous
Forest Forest AnimalsAnimals
byby
Oscar OwlOscar Owl
Biomes of the WorldBiomes of the World
North AmericaNorth America
North American Porcupine Chipmunk
Raccoon Opossum
South AmericaSouth America
White Deer Gray Fox
Puma Dragonfly
EuropeEurope
young Wild Boar Hedgehog
Least Weasel
River Otter
AsiaAsia
Muntjac rusa Deer
Metso
AustraliaAustralia
Axis Deer Rusa Deer
Platypus
Hello, fellow.
Hi, Buster.
I haven’t seen you in awhile.
Ya, probably because I’ve been building my new dam.
Oooh a new dam?
I’ve been building it over the winter.
Must have been hard
because its so cold.
Kind of was.
Have ya heard?
Heard of what?
All the human homes being
built.
I have. Half the trees are almost gone. Isn’t the building going
on, on the other side of the lake?
Ya, and I heard some
of the animals and insects
have to move.
Isn’t that right Bobby?
Uh, ya.
That’s dreadful.
What about the plants?
They might be hurt. I
don’t know for sure.
If the plants are
destroyed, what would I
eat?
I can’t even say what
would happen to me. And others too.
What do you mean?
Well Squints, we are a community. We all depend on
each other.
What happens to one of us affects
all of us.
Take a look at this chart.
I’m a little scared.
My little friend, I’m sure it
won’t go far.
I hope you’re right,
Oscar.
Take a look at this picture of where
my great granddad used to live.
That’s atrocious.
Look at all the erosion that happened when the
trees and plants were cut down.
Why would they do that? Don’t the humans know that the forests keep the
world clean?
Apparently not. All that dirt is going to blow around without the
plants to hold it down.
When all the plants and trees are destroyed, it
causes global warming.
All is not lost. The most fascinating thing about the
Temperate Deciduous Forest is the way it reacts to temperature change.
Huh?
You know about the seasons, right?
Well, I know that the forest changes as the temperature goes up
and down.
Indeed. Very good, Bobby. We all know
things are getting hotter because of global warming.
That tricks the trees and plants into thinking
it is summer. Then they keep their leaves longer and make more
oxygen.
This actually helps fight global warming.
We live in the coolest place in the world!!!
But, I’m still scared they will cut down our
forest.
Cheer up Bobby. It’ll be fine.
Ya, you guys are
right.
Want to know how I cheer my self up?
How?
I think of some interesting things that are in the
Temperate Deciduous Forest.
Like, how baby fern leaves are
called fiddle heads because
they look like the curled head of a
violin?
Exactly! Let’s all
try it.
Oak trees are usually the tallest trees in the forest but they start as
tiny acorns buried under the leaves.
Insects, like worms and beetles eat dead matter and turn it into soil.
Now it’s you’re turn Bobby?
Oh, umm, what about, owls don’t make any noise when they fly
because their wings have soft, fluffy feathers on the
tips.
Hoo, Hoo. Very
true.
Doesn’t that make you feel better Bobby?
Ya, it does!
Thanks Buster.
Your welcome.
Howdy, ho, Buster has
to go.
I should go to bed too. Hope all of you have a marvelous
night.
Me too. I’ll see you tomorrow.
Good day
Bye guys.
Voices …..
Bobby……………Mike Riley
Buster……………Cassidy Rivera
Oscar…………….Mike Riley
Pock……………..Jennifer Rivera
Red………………Jennifer Rivera
Squints…………..Cassidy Rivera
Stripe…………….Cassidy Rivera