Temperate+Rain+Forest



Emilio G., Evan H.


 * __Summary of Temperate Rain Forest__**

The Temperate Rain Forest can be found on the Pacific side of the United States running in a line through Canada and up to the edge of Alaska. It can be found in the southwest coast of South America, mostly the west coast of Chile. It runs along many of the coasts of Europe and also in the middle part of it. It is in the southeast coast of Australia and in many islands off of that same coast. It is on the coasts of Asia and has a large portion of the forest in central Asia. There are also many types of living things in the Temperate Rain Forest. These include things such as plants like a Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Cedar (Cedrus). It also includes many animals and some examples of this would be a Black Bear (Ursus Americanus), a Gray Jay (Perisoreus Canadensis), and a Cougar (puma). The Temperate Rain Forest has quite a bit of different types of fungi such as the Fuligo Septica, the Peziza Violacea, and the Penicillium. Also, the Temperate Rain Forest holds many types of protist. These include things such as Euglenas, Dinoflagelleta, and sporozoa. The Temperate Rain Forest is full of different types of bacteria such as Francisella tularensis, bacillius anthracis, and types of endospores.


 * __Climate of the Temperate Rain Forest__**

The Climate of the Temperate Rain Forest has four seasonal changes and recieves a minimum of two to three meters of rain a year depending on the latitude. Rainfall in the mid-latitudes usually experience about 50-60 inches or 200 centimeters of rainfall a year and the rain forest areas of Olympic National Park double this amount at about 140 inches. But in some warmer places rainfall can get to about 350 centimeters of rainfall. Because of the distance from the ocean the winter's are mild and the summers are cool.They also have summer fogs that carry moisture and let rain fall. The climate here is never dry because it rains so much. The reason it is so dry because the rain causes foggy and very cloudy, especially in the summer. In the winter it never drops below freezing. The annual temperature here is above 0 degrees C, largely affected by the ocean.

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