Where is the tundra and who lives there?  Tundra Animals:
Otters: Exploring thick fur helps people engineer wetsuits: Wolves: Tigers: Siberian tigers inhabit the tundra North of the Tundra is the ArcticAnimals in the tundra stay warm with thick fur, while animals in colder climates might have a layer of blubber. Blubber: is a thick layer of fat, also called adipose tissue, directly under the skin of all marine mammals. Blubber covers the entire body of animals such as seals, whales, and walruses—except for their fins, flippers, and flukes. Blubber an important part of a marine mammal's anatomy.  Review:
Biomolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids Monomer: building block Lipids: fatty acid and glycerol
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 COntinental DriftContinental Drift: the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.  Geological Timescale  Mass ExtinctionsThe big five mass extinctions
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago. What is Time?
Forest Biology Concept chart BiodiversityEcosystem: Living and non living parts of a food web or habitat Species: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. Biodiversity: the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. Keystone Species: a species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically. Wolves as a keystone species:  We will cover some types of forest animalsMonotremes are egg laying mammalsThere are only five living monotreme species: the duck-billed platypus and four species of echidna (also known as spiny anteaters). All of them are found only in Australia and New Guinea. The platypus lives in the deciduous forests of Australia: 
EchidnaThe average lifespan of an echidna in the wild is estimated around 14–16 years.
Wildfire comparison Synapsids, the mammal like reptiles branched outInto monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals  Synapsids:
Dimetrodon: The first order of synapsids to arise in the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian, around 310 Million years ago, were the pelycosaurs, making up around 70% of all the tetrapod genera alive in the Early Permian. The pelycosaurs are split into six families: http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/palaeofiles/fossilgroups/synapsida/pelycosauria.html They Have: Ophiacodon:  The skeleton of Ophiacodon, the largest and best known of the earliest pelycosaurs, Benton and Harper, 1997 Video Notes
 Forest Crabs  Scientists in India have discovered a new species of crab that lives entirely on trees in the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot.  Coconut Crab It is found on islands across the Indian Ocean, and parts of the Pacific Ocean as far east as the Gambier Islands and Pitcairn Islands SOme of the ancient forests of the world
Forest Spotlight: Tarkine FOrest Tarkine Forest, Tasmania, Australia:
Where the Tasmanian Devil Lives 
Other Tasmania Dweller: The QuollMarsupial PhylogenySome marsupials stayed in the Americas, remember Gondwanaland?   MONOTREMES ARE OLDER THAN MARSUPIALS Remember our Genetics VocabularyGene flow: the movement of alleles from one population to another, which may increase the genetic diversity of a population. Speciation: the genetic divergence of populations, a barrier to gene flow, leading overtime to reproductive isolation and the formation of a new species Reproductive Isolation: mechanisms that prevent mating and gene flo between members of a different species Founder Effect: the reduced genetic diversity that results when a population is descended from a small number of colonizing ancestors. Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: the principle that in a non-evolving population, both allele and genotype frequencies remain constant from one generation to the next Living creatures change over time, they speciate, they become a new species and pass on different traits The world around a species many change the species Creatures will change their eating habits and behavior to reduce competition, mate with others that are changing their behavior, and end up becoming a new species The adaptation is how species survive mass extinctions None of this information is meant to disagree with any religion, creatures are just finding ways to thrive and be part of biodiversity, they adopt new survival skills and technologies as they gain more experience. Charles Darwin studied Finches in the Galapagos FOrest Creature Concept mapEvery forest around the world has a species that fills each niche, you might have a different type of bear, or a different type of big cat, animals that hibernate, animals that live on trees, or creatures that live on the ground: See the parallels in every ecosystem, there are patterns within a functional food web.  Tapirs live in wetlands, forests, savanna, and rain forests, and they have a range that includes Mexico, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia's Malaya and Sumatra. 30 million years ago was the Oligocene Epoch:  The Dingo is a dog from Australia, one of the few non-marsupial mammals: They can be found in temperate forests, alpine moorlands, arid deserts, wetlands, and even tropical forests.    Peculiar Birds: Birds of Prey: Then we have Arthropods Insect OrdersSome Insect Classifications within Taxonomy Orthoptera: straight leathery wing, grasshoppers, katydid, cockroach Lepidoptera: Butterflies and moths, important pollinators Coleoptera: Beetles, means hard shell wing Siphonaptera: Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera. As external parasites of mammals and birds, they live by consuming the blood of their hosts.
Hymenoptera: bees, wasps, ants Blattodea: Termites Sir david attenboroughEnglish broadcaster and natural historian. Insects are AncientSpiders live everywhereForest Water Cycle |
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