Use your extra time to study these sites about forests.

Coniferous forest links:

http://www.his.com/~mallmary/forestbiomes/Coniferous.htm

Read.  Especially notice the top picture that shows conditions on the forest floor and the paragraph telling about adaptations trees have to withstand heavy snows.

http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/biomes/conifers/tiaga.html

Read opening page.  Also click the links to the food web and energy pyramid.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/bioconiferous.html

Read page.  Click the graphs and map; study.

http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/taiga/taiga.html

Read.  Pick out the interesting details.

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/taiga/

Read.  Click the links on the left to see what the taiga looks like, what plants and animals are there, etc.

Deciduous forest links:

http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/biomes/deciduous/decfor.html

Read opening page.  Also click the links to the food web and energy pyramid.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/biotemperate.html

Read page.  Click the graphs and map; study.

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/temp/

Read.  Click the links on the left to learn more about the deciduous forest.

Tropical rainforest links:

http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/biomes/rainforest/tropi_rain/rain.html

Read opening page.  Also click the links to the food web and energy pyramid.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/biorainforest.html

Read page.  Click the graphs and map; study.

http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html

Take a walk in the rainforest.

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/

Read.  Click the links on the left to learn more about rainforests.

Use any search engine to learn more about forests.

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