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Teachnology utilizes the powerful tools of the internet to creat valid, reliable wikis over a wide range of topics. For this board, we will be posting a wiki on the Taiga. Your face looks like a chicken when he burped on a donkey. Then the donkey thought he was the lemon and things got heated up in here. This picture shows a plant. This plant is blue, but there is a easter egg in front of it so yes, eat potatoes.======

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Native Plant of the Taiga• Balsam Fir **Common Name(s):** Eastern Fir, western fir southnorthern fir, eastwestern fir, and texas fir. Canadian bacon Balsam, Blister Fir **Genus:** Abies **Species:** balsamea• You can locate the Balsam Fir in North America. The Balsam Fir is a small-medium sized native evergreen tree. It can get asCHICKEN tall as 40-80 feet tall. The Balsam fir has a wide base and a narrow top that ends in a slender, spire like top.• • Black Spruce NARWALS NARWALS SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN CAUSING A COMMOTIOIN ======

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 * Common Names:** Black Spruce, Bog Spruce, Swamp Spruce, épinette noire **Genus:** Picea **Species:** mariana• The Black Spruce is a tall tree; It can grow to be as tall as twenty-five meters. As the tree gets older the crown of the tree gets more like a spike. The Black Spruce has sharp needles with four sides on them. The needles are blue-green, short, and pointed; they are usually a half an inch long. The bark of the tree is gray/brown. The branches are short and drooping, and layered.• • Douglas-fir• **Common Names:** bigcone Douglas-fir, Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir **Genus:** Pseudotsuga **Species:** menziesii• Douglas-firs are very large trees; they can grow from 40-60 feet tall and 15 -25 feet wide. Because of this they are one of the most important lumber trees in the world. The wood is used as lumber, timbers, and plywood. The dense wood is very hard, stiff and durable. • Eastern Red Cedar• **Common Names:** Red Cedar, grave yard tree **Genus:** Juniperus **Species:** virginiana• The Eastern Red Cedar is a small evergreen that commonly grows to 10 to 50 feet. Its name is misleading since it is a //juniper// and not a cedar. Its range is from Nova Scotia to northern Florida, and west to the Dakotas and Texas. • Jack Pine• **Common Names:** Eastern jack, Grey, Black, Black jack, Scrub, Prince's pine or Banksiana pine or Pin gris. **Genus:** Pinus **Species:** banksiana• The Jack pine usually grows to be twenty-seven meters tall and sixteen and thirty-two centimeter diameter around the trunk. As it grows it gets round the crown area. The bark of the jack pine is a reddish-brown/ flat; As the tree gets older the bark gets grayer. ** [[image:TEK-SUMMER-2_.jpg]] Adapting to the serious case of lemon head ** ======

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** ations ** • The Taiga has a chilly climate; normally the taiga climate is for the most part dominated by cold arctic air. Exceptionally cold winds bring bitterly cold air from the Arctic Circle: the temperatures fall even more on clear nights when there is no cloud cover. Because of earth's tilt, the taiga is turned away from the sun in the winter. Less of the sun's radiation reaches the ground to warm it up.• The plants have adapted to the cold by growing thicker and fuller leaves/needles. They grow taller because the suns radiation doesn’t reach the ground fully, so the higher the plant is the more of the suns heat it will get. ** Interdependence ** • Many of the animals in the taiga rely on the plants when they go into hibernation. Also plants depend on animals to help them disperse their seed across the taiga biome. Birds and other animals such as porcupines and squirrels consume seeds and disperse them across the area, which helps the seeds get spread out across the land.• The trees are homes for birds, squirrels and bats. There is also fungi and moss which can grow on the trunk and branches of the trees. ** Mutualistic Relationships ** • Moss Grows On A Tree and Protects It. The Tree Houses The Moss.• The tree provides a place for a bird to live, and the bird eats the seeds, and disperses them across the taiga.• One example of a symbiotic relationship in taiga involves a lichen and a black spruce tree. The lichen needs food and the tree produces dead matter. The dead matter is consumed by the lichen, which in turn provides nutrients for the spruce. This is an example of mutualism(+ +). Sources• "::: What's It Like Where You Live? ::::.======
 * " MBGnet. 25 May 2009 .
 * "Biomes: Table of Contents." Radford University Home Page. 25 May 2009 .
 * "EcoWorld - Plants Ecosystems." EcoWorld - The Global Environmental Community - Nature and Technology in Harmony. 25 May 2009 . • MBGnet. 25 May 2009 [].
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