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If one was to look at Ontario as a region we find a great variation in ecosystems. We may divide the province into four regions, the Hudson Bay Lowlands in the northern reaches of the province, the Boreal Forest, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest and Deciduous forest (Government of Ontario). 26 million hectares, covering one of the largest expanses of wetland in the world, the Hudson Bay Lowlands is characterized by bogs, fens, few slow growing forest and tundra, of this two-thirds of this…

The tundra has the coldest temperatures of all of the different types of biomes. The typical temperature in the tundra is about minus 18 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s very cold, but it gets even colder there in the winter! It’s actually very dry in the tundra as they receive about as much precipitation, or moisture, as the average desert, and it’s mostly in the form of snow. It’s also barren and treeless partly because it lacks the nutrients needed to support plants and animals. All year it has…

The Cambrian Period was an era filled with a massive explosion of a variety of animals and ecosystems. It was a time where super continent Pannotia no longer existed. During this time period, North America remained above water and was eroded by running water. North American was also on the equator which meant warm climate. The continents were oriented very differently, the east coast of North America faced the south. Activities such as transgression of the sea, and carbonate deposition went on…

Boreal, Coniferous, and Deciduous Forests Boreal, deciduous, and coniferous forests each possess distinctive traits and soil characteristics. Forests soils give important contributions in nitrogen and phosphorus transformations. These transformations are dependable on the weather conditions of the forest and the type of vegetation it contains. Soil mineralogy and organic matter also play an important role in the nitrogen and phosphorus transformations on the forest floor. Boreal forests are…

In the Batewood Park environment, I noticed on arrival that there were few shrubberies or flowers, but there was an abundance of a variety trees. There was a playground, a picnic, table, basketball court, and other things added from humans, which causes the park environment overall to be different than that of a forest that is not impacted specifically from humans. I sat in the grass near the picnic tables and an oak tree, close enough to where I could observe ants under the picnic tables, bees…

A Tundra is a biome with little tree growth and low temperature. The Tundra is the coldest of all of the biomes it’s temperature is between 60 to 75 Degrees latitude. This biome is best noted for its snowy landscape and extreme low temperatures. Tundras are covered in snow for most of the year until the summer. The summer in the Tundras are cool in temperature. Lots of the snow melts into soggy marshes and bogs. The daytime temperatures during the summer rise to about 12 °C (54 °F) but my drop…

Arctic Tundra Referred as “treeless plain”   Earth's coldest biome!  Earth's youngest biome! (formed 10,000 years ago) Located in the Northern Hemisphere (Alaska, Canada, and Siberia)   Known for its cold, desert like conditions Average Temperature (Winter): -34° C (-30° F)  Average Temperature (Summer): 3-12° C (37-54° F)  Arctic Tundra Wide variety of plants (1,700 kinds of plants)   Short growing season (50 – 60 Days)  Carbon Sink (Stored in permafrost) Animals…

personification this quote “light like a green latticework of branches” by “Ode to The Enchanted Light” he uses figurative language such as Similys and metaphors. This quote “She took me back so tenderly arranged her dark skirts her pockets full of lichens seeds” this proves that anything they has similar poems about nature they found a way rite them…

to Enchanted Light” lines 10-15 states, “A cicada sends it sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water. For example in the poem “Sleeping in the Forest” lines 4-5 states, “her black skirts, her pockets full of lichens’ and seeds.” In “Ode to Enchanted Light” and “Sleeping in the Forest” message is there are pros and cons about nature.…

In our compost chamber one of the most prevalent features throughout the check was the presence of slime mold. Slime mold seeks out decaying materials such as wood and leaves to grow on, so it can take up the nutrients. Slime molds are organisms that reproduce with spores, so the rapid spread everywhere in the chamber was one that closely resembles its characteristics (Poinar 1). Slime mold engulfs fungi which is attracted to decayed material, therefore it is reasonable that the slime mold would…