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THE ANIMALS IN THE OUR BIOME.

The alpaca

The chinchilla

The mountain goat

The vicuna

The Andean condor

The llama

The snow leapord

The Yak

THE PLANTS OF THE ALPINE ARE…

• The Alpine Phacenia

• The Bristlecone Pine

• The Poly Lapis Forest

• The Wild Potato

• The Bear grass

• The Moss Campaign

• The Pygmy Bitteropt

PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE ALPINE ARE… Cold all year round

Summer temp. is -12 degrees C and -10 degrees C

It’s like a tundra, dry and cold

At night it’s below 0 and freezzing

WHERE IS THE ALPINE BIOME IS LOCATED? It is located where trees can’t grow

The biome covers about 60% of the earth.

THE BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC FACTORS ARE…

Biotic

o Tussock grass

o Dwarf trees

o Small leafed shrubs

o The animals

Abiotico Temperatureo Sunlighto Airo Dirt

THE ADAPTED ANIMALS

The Andean condor uses cliffs to fly

Llamas have leather soles to protect from sharp rocks

Mountain goats have round bodies to protect from the cold

The snow leopard has a coat that lets them blend in with the rocks and snow.

Vicuna has a thick round coat that traps layers of air close to the body.

ADAPTED PLANTS

• Alpine Phacelia grow on rocky areas on mountains

• Bear grass grows after a fire in the ashes like a phoenix

• Bristlecone pine makes needles with barely any energy

• Moss campaign grows lower and higher than Alpine

• Poly lapis forest grows at altitudes of 4,500 meters

WHAT WE SAW WAS…

See

1. Rocks

2. snow

Hear

3. Wind

4. Animals

Smell

5. The animals

6. The plants

Touch

7. Cold

8. Dry

Taste

9. Warm with fire

WERE WE HAPPY?

No were not happy. It was cold, dry, you could slip off a hill let gravity take you down until you fall off a cliff and die.

OUR FOOD CHAIN

Sun-moss campaign-mountain goat- snow leopard- you

THANK YOU

www.blueplanet.org/alpine-plygn-page

www.blueplanet.org-/alpine- animal- page

www.blueplanet.org biomes.org/alpine-climate-page