Scribe 9/21/11

(Movie Trailer)

            Today in class we watched the movie, Planet Earth. During the movie we learned interesting facts about many biomes and learned about many living organisms in a specific biome. The first biome we saw was the Tundra. Two organisms that live in the Tundra are, penguins and polar bears. The penguins struggle with the cold weather sometimes, which leads them to no food. And for the polar bears, they don’t get a lot of food either, so it is hard for the mama polar bears to feed their cubs. The next biome we saw and learned a little about was called Taiga or Boreal Forest. The one fact we leaned about the Taiga was that it contains many conifer trees, which are trees that last all year. Furthermore, the next biome we saw was called Deciduous Forest. Broad leaf trees are very common in the Deciduous Forests and the leaves are also edible! Also there are a many Armur Leopards roaming around the forests. Armur Leopards are considered rare in all the cats in the world and have thick fur so they can stay warm and keep out the cold air. In addition, the Tropical Rainforest came next to learn about. The Tropical rainforest covers 3% of earth’s surface and contains 50% of earth’s plants and animals. One of the animals that lives is the rainforest are the birds of paradise. One of the biggest challenges for the birds is finding a mate and impressing their mate. Finally the last biome we learned about was the desert. The desert is 1/3 of lands surface and one deserts is called Kalahari. The Kalahari Desert always get very dry at some point during the year and it also has many dust storms. And a special animal that lives there is the Lechwe Antelope, which has special hooves that help move quickly and easily in the water. All in all, we learned about many biomes and many living organisms in the movie, Planet Earth.

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