Temperate+rain+forest


 * [[image:temperaterainforest.gif]]By Asa GB and Jerry S.

Climate** The temperate rainforest has a rainfall of 50-60 inches per year. It has mild summers with temperatures that seldom exceed 80 degrees farenheit. The temperate rainforest has mild winters with temperatures rarely below freezing. It has wet cool winters and foggy or cloud covered summers. The mild winters permit year-round growth of the conifers. While the mild summers reduce the idea of drought.

The Temperate Rain Forest is located in Both Americas, on the west coast of The U.S in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington State and in Southern Chile. Also over seas in Western Europe in Norway and Spain, in southeastern Australia and in Western New Zealand.
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Some organisms in the animal kingdoms are black bears and river otters. Black bears can eat river otters. Some birds are the blue grouse and Clark's nutcracker. Also the temperate rainforest has the snowy owl. Some examples in the plant kingdom are western cedars and the douglas fir. The douglas fir can grow up to 280 feet tall. An organism in the protist kingdom is Platyophrya paoletti. It was just discovered by scientists in Australia and Tasmania. Organisms in the fungi kingdom are bracket fungi and lichen. Lichen is like a moss and makes its own food by photsynthesis.
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