BIOME EXPLORERS Footsteps inthe Forest
Laura Perdew
Illustrated by Lex Cornell
BIOME EXPLORERS Footsteps inthe Forest
Laura Perdew
Illustrated by Lex Cornell
I see an old giant, anchored by wavy planks. It is home to flowers, monkeys, and frogs. I see a kapok tree in the rainforest.
I see branches reaching in all directions, full of acorns and broad leaves. It is home to spiders, opossums, and woodpeckers.
I see an oak tree in a temperate forest.
I see pinecones and needle leaves and red bark. It is home to porcupines, grouse, and mice.
I see a ponderosa pine in a boreal forest.
Greetings!
Are you ready to explore a new biome? Then gear up— we’re headed to the FORESTS.
Can you guess one thing we’ll see there?
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biome is a community of plants and animals that live together in a certain climate.
There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world.
LOTS OF TREES!
On our journey, we will see trees of all sizes and SHAPES.
Leafy trees and trees with pine needles.
TOWERING
trees and SQUAT LITTLE TREES .
Trunks with RED bark, BROWN bark, and WHITE bark.
What we see will depend on the type of forest we’re in— tropical, temperate, or boreal.
Close to the equator, we’ll find tropical rainforests. Temperate forests are between the equator and the polar regions.
And we’ll bundle up and visit the boreal forests in the far north.
Forests cover about one-third of the land on Earth. That’s more than 3 trillion trees!
Let’s start our journey in the world’s largest tropical rainforest—THE AMAZON.
This warm, humid forest is called a rainforest because—you guessed it—it rains there.
A LOT!
Like other tropical rainforests, the Amazon is warm all year round.
Some tropical rainforests receive as much as 300 inches of rain per year!