Alpine

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 * Brian Gonzales ||
 * Matt Melanson ||
 * Kayla Aguilar-Aguirre ||
 * Jasmine Juarez ||
 * Charlie Gullotti ||
 * Chun Huang ||
 * Ernie Pellegrino ||


 * If you are having trouble finding a biome to explore, come to the alpine.** **The alpine has almost everything, it's cold and hot at the same time.** **You can go up to the mountains and go skiing or snowboarding,camping and go hiking and later on in the day go explore the deep forest for animals and creatures. the best adventure you could experience is skiing. there are so many places to stay over night and experience a luxurious lodge with warm fireplaces and other relaxing things. The ski locations provide the lessones for young kids or older adults much more but you just have to experience this extreme cold but yet satisfying warm feeling place. Theres the hiking near the southern foothills and adventure the creatures of the differnet alpines.**

** Climate **** Description **
The anemometer records wind speed and the wind vane records the direction the wind is coming from. the climate there does have a bit of humidity.+ =** Location One: Rocky Mountains **=

The rocky mountains have very beautiful sights like any other but there are some things that the rocky mountains provide that others don't. There life zone is very unique and involve an important niche in order to survvive in the rocky mountains. The plants need just the right sun exposure, specific soil mixture and the food and shelter of course for the animals. An intresting thing about animals that live in the Alpine biome is that their lungs are larger than most animals which helps them breathe with the lower levels of oxygen.

** Highlighted Species: **
The mountain lion is an animal that is one of Americas number one biggest cat. Its physical appearance is brown cinnamon with black tiped ears and tail. the males reach about 200 hundred pounds and eight feet long, that a very big cat compared to any other cat that a human keeps in their house. because of there size they take about a mile square to over 100. So in there need for large places to roam freely in they sightings are a rare event. There favorite prey would most likely be the mule deer. they eat about a deer per week all year round, and of course they eat other rodents so keep your children really close to you but still is a beautiful sight to see a mountain lion live.

**Food Web:**






There is so many great animals you will get to see if you come visit the Rocky Mountains, Himalayas or the Andes. Theres the wolf and the moose pine martin or the snow leopord. Theres deer and sheep and even tigers. You can get to see all the wonderful creatures that live in the alpine biome. Theres just so mny animals you dont get to see often and very interesting ones like cougars or different animals you might have not even known were out there. Its fun and theres so many things to do while visiting the alpine areas and the views are great. There great places to come visit and if you do youll have the best time.

terrain information:
=** Locations Two: Himalaya **= = =

**climate description:**
The climate for the himalayas has two basic weather summer and winter. during the suimmer in the southern hoothills it gets to 30 degrees celeus and then duirng the winter it gets to 18 degrees celseus. then theres the middle rang of the himalaya. the summer gets aorund to 25 degrees celisus while the winter gets very very cold. then once at the higher range of the moutains summer is recorded to be 15 18 degrees celisuse, while the winter is below freezing point. so basically birng a variety of cloths for the very cold winters, mittens,hats, and very big husky jackets. it will get breezing cold out there.cool fact the Himalayas were formed after India separated from Gondwanaland and drifted north colliding with the Eurasian continent many millions of years ago.   the Himalaya have many different kind of organism like blue sheep, Himilayan Brown Bear, Snow Leopard, Musk Deer, Himilayan Tahr, etc. So this will made a very big food web. = =

** Highlighted Species: **


for instance there is the panthers Tigris he is one of the animals at the top of the food chain and is very big and is known as simply a "man eater". there was a tiger that killed 434 people before a man had shot it down. Therese also a snow leopard that has been known to be found in the coldest deserts. there is very little disturbance with these animals so there isn't too much but that they are very much nocturnal animals. they stay concealed laying in the grass. then the leopards hunt at night. there are many kind of tigers in the Himalayas. there have been dicoverys of the tigers living in in the high altitude witch is pretty rare apparently. so if your looking for a life thrilling experience of seeing a wild life tiger in the himalayas then pack up for cold weather and bring the camo clothes.
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=** Location Three: Andes Mountains **= The Andes Mountains are located in South America, running north to south along the western coast of the continent. The Andes Mountains are the longest and one of the highest mountain ranges in the world. The climate is not the same throughout the biome because there are places nearer to the equator than others. Here is a photo of the andes mountain.

Highlighted Species:
this is andes condor. The **Andean Condor** is a species of South American bird in the New World Vulture family Cathartidae and is the only member of thegenus //**Vultur**//. It is a large black vulture with a ruff of white feathers surrounding the base of the neck and, especially in the male, large white patches on the wings. The Andes Condor is a giant bird with a 10 foot wing span. The Condor prefers the Alpine Biome because the winds and high altitude help it fly. The head and neck are nearly featherless, and are a dull red color, which may flush and therefore change color in response to the bird's emotional state.

** The Animals in the Andes **
There have many different kind of animals in the Andes. For example alpaca, couger, conder,partridge deer, chinchillas, etc.

work cited: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/nalnd.htm

work cited for picture of rocky mountains http://www.admwebstudios.co.uk/Biodiversity7.htm

work cited for map of alpine http://www.reec.nsw.edu.au/geo/alpine/text/alp9.htm

work cited for climate http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20016959-503543.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/10131/ff_fauna.html

work cited for image of tiger

http://www.nps.gov/romo/naturescience/mountain-lion.htm

picture of moutain lion http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosz/1865430338/

url for condor of andes