| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| Planet Earth |
Today I watched a movie about Planet Earth which focused about two biomes: Artic Tundra (Great Plains) and the Rainforest (Jungle). It showed many footage of the biomes which not many people really gets to see, and the movie gave me more of an idea of animals and how they survive.
I learned many things about grassland. Did you know that grass covers one-fourth of land on Earth? I never knew that grass was indestructable and basically feeds wildlife. Grass can even grow in bitter conditions in the Artic than just tropical climates.
The Artic Tundra is very cold and snowy in the winter, and it is very green and grassy in the summer. Summer is the time for growth and reproduction. Colors mostly come into the plains during this period, such as sunflowers. At springtime, about 5 million snow geese migrate to the Artic Tundra, and then spend their summer laying their eggs and eating grass. The Artic Wolves also live in the Artic Tundra, who have a hard time searching for food. The wolves hunt for caribou, but they are hard to keep track of since they are always migrating. Caribou travel about 30 miles a day. When the Artic Wolves picks up the trail of the Caribou, the Wolves quickly find their food and the weak and young get singled out.
One neat thing I learned throughout this movie is the tallest kind of grass in the world, which is called Elephant Grass. It's even taller than elephants! Elephants cross hundreds of miles across the Great Plains when they're in danger. For example, if the grassland gets caught on fire, Elephants must quickly escape to get out of danger.
While in the jungle, there are little sunlight because of the extremely tall trees. Trees usually fall down into the jungle, and in less than 4 years new plants grow. Surprisingly, it doesn't rain everyday in the rainforest, although it rains more than it does anywhere else in the world. It rains about more than 2 meters of rain per year on average. A tree would take over a ton of water each year because of all he rain, which is why the trees are so tall.
As you can see I learned many things throughout the movie. There are much more information that I could write about, but there's just too many. This movie got me to think more about animals and how their life isn't that easy. The Planet Earth movie is very educational and interesting.
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posted by charisse @ 9:09 PM  |
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Sounds interesting! :)
-Erica D
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OMGOMGOMGOMG! Charisse, I adore your blog. how did you do that?
<3 you!
Carly
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Sounds interesting! :)
-Erica D