While watching the video “Planet Earth Pole to Pole” I have learned many things such as One hundred years ago, there were 1 billion people on earth, and now there are more than 6 billion on earth. There are still places on earth where people have yet to interfere. One of the main reasons this is so untouched by humans is because of the harsh climates in these areas. The sun controls the life on earth. If the sun’s rays are too strong things will not grow and if the sun’s rays are weak things will not grow.
Male emperor penguins live in the Antarctic and face months with no sun. The temperature is minus 70 degrees Celsius. The penguins stay because they are guarding their eggs, which were above their feet under some fat. These are the
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The sun’s rays don’t reach the earth with enough energy to allow trees to grow. If you travel 500 miles south, you can see the beginning of the boreal forest. The furs need like trees have hardly any nutrition and do not allow for any life. These trees in this area are so numerous than the lack of trees up north they change the composition of the atmosphere. When you head further south the tree composition changes to allow for large leaf trees to grow and allow for a bustling ecosystem in the summer. During the winter time, the trees lose their leaves and animals must hibernate or move on to find more food.
In these winter times, the Amur leopard hunts and tries to find any food. These leopards are the rarest cats in the world. These cats are very hardy cats, but there are only forty left in the wild.
All animals depend on of the sun for energy. The sun 's energy brings color to the landscape which allows life to thrive. During the fall months, the trees, leaves begin to change colors. This change signals that winter is coming, and the trees are about to hibernate. Some organisms thrive on the decaying of other plants. Many animals leave in search of warmth and
...arth has always varied from time to time, since the time the earth was formed and it is one of the most unpredictable processes. Though it is a natural process, anthropogenic contributions are also accounted upon heavily these days. According to studies, although the earth is supposed to be experiencing a cooling phase at this time, it is evident from the polar ice caps melting that the earth is warming. The polar ecosystem is hence going through a phase of dynamism more due to external disturbances such as rising temperature and ocean thermal expansion. Therefore the need of the hour is to be aware about the changes in the ecosystem that is occurring and to come together to either prevent or adapt to the changing conditions. Only then can a ecosystem function in a healthy manner with its species diversity and good interaction among themselves and their environment.
Habitat: Emperor penguins inhabit Antarctica during the winter months as well as the open waters outside of land. Besides living in a harsh cold environment Emperor penguins must not be faced with higher temperature weather.
The climate of the tundra is characterized by harsh winters. The average temperature in the tundra area is about –27 degrees. But what is even worse are the long night. At nights the lowest temperture recorded was –67.36 degrees. There are even times in the year when the sun doesn’t come up for days. In the tundra we have little snow and even less rainfall. The rainfall is about a quarter inch in a yearly rainfall. Even though the tundra’s winters are long a harsh there summers are the shortest season of all. Do to the terrible weather and climate in the tundra their animals and plant life is very limited.
These penguins lived after the Castastrophic event “Cretaceuous” that demolished the dinosaurs and many other species. Based on the DNA analyses and avaiable evidence of modern birds, we think the modern bird- lineages, including penguins, some how managed to survive through the Cretaceuous. Also it’s not shocking these fossils were found in New Zeland. The South Pacific and Southern oceans were free of predatory mammals, had abundant food, and had space for Penguins to breed. But the Southern Pacific is not the only area where Penguins inhabit. Many of modern penguins “Aptrenodytes” are located in the Antarctic. Recenelty it was discovered that there was a over looked feature on the surface of the fossil penguins flipper bone. These grooves were easily missed because the look was similar to tendons and muscles in the same area. It was discovered that these grooves were blood vessels that make up a counter current heat exchanger called “humeral arterial plexus” which allows penguins to limit the heat loss through the flippers. Also it helped Penguins maintain their core body temperature in cold water allowing them to survive long journeys in the cold waters. Although Penguins have luckily been able develop these traits to survive the dramatic shifts in climate, the world population can not mistake their success as resilience towards global warming.
The total populations of some species, such as the emperor penguin, are estimated in hundreds of thousands, but those of most species of smaller penguins certainly run to several million. The largest breeding colonies are on the islands between 50 [IMAGE] south latitude and Antarctica . These immense colonies, some of which contain hundreds of thousands of individuals, represent a large potential food resource, but the economic importance of penguins is negligible.
Movies such as Mary Poppins, Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, and Madagascar have portrayed penguins as lovable, comical creatures with intelligent minds and adorable faces. Simply put: humans have idealized the penguin. Indeed, it is a well-known fact that most species of penguin form loyal monogamous bonds, also known as mating for life. However, there are other penguin facts which are largely unknown. For example, few individuals know that penguins have a body temperature between “100 and 102 degrees” Fahrenheit (Lynch, 1997, p. 35). When we remember that humans have a...
Mankind’s industrialization of the world has caused a drastic increase in temperature. This rise in temperature is caused by solar radiation remaining in our atmosphere because of gases produced by humans through the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities. These gases block the radiation from escaping into space therefore warming our planet. The result is raising of ocean levels, extinction of species and threatening of children’s health because of disease and less freshwater to drink. While many view climate change to be a more natural occurrence than others do, scientists have proven the average temperature rise of the Earth between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the last 100 years.
For a majority of people, it isn’t new news that the Earth’s climate is changing and increasingly getting warmer. For quite some time now, people have been arguing about what the actual causes are and what role humans have played in the current condition of the earth. A good bit of people seem to be in agreement that due to the actions of humans, the earth’s climate is increasingly getting worse and that if things don’t change, than everyone living on earth will be facing the consequences. However, this is not entirely true. The fault of climate change does not fall solely on the shoulders of mankind, but on the earth as well.
The habitat of the South Pole is far too harsh for most organisms to survive. Only in some of the milder areas are some plant life present such as lichen and moss. Penguins are mostly found in the southern hemisphere of the earth, mostly in
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Snow leopard. When most people hear those words put together, they think of a large, stunning cat with piercing blue eyes, prowling across a snowy terrain high up in the mountains. What they don’t imagine is a helpless animal whose habitat is being destroyed. That is exactly what is happening to these beautiful creatures. Mountain ranges, where these rare cats live, are under the attack of global warming, and the snow leopard population is dwindling because of humans. One of the more well-known snow leopard habitats are the Himalayas. Located in Asia, the Himalayas are becoming warmer each year, which results in a higher treeline. The snow leopards are forced to retreat ever higher into the mountains, where there is less food, vegetation, and, most importantly, oxygen. Even more, humans are attracted to the alluring furs of this beautiful feline. Illegal hunters, or poachers, track down the snow leopards and kill them for their pelts, bones, and body parts. The snow leopard’s fur is a whitish-gray color, tinged with occasional yellow in the spring and dark gray to black splotches, or rosettes (Scherer & Fletcher). The colors of their fur act as camouflage against the mountain snow. Additionally, this cat is one of the smallest of the world’s large cats, averaging about two feet tall from paws to shoulders and about six feet from head to the base of the tail. The tail, however, can add up to three feet to their body length. The snow leopard eats anything from wild sheep to birds to gazelles to red pandas. It is obviously a meat eater, which is called a carnivore. Back to the point, snow leopards are in great danger of becoming extinct if humans continue to hunt them for their pelts and bones and if climate change co...
Another way, is the farther’s role is very important because farther penguins have to watch and keep the egg warm for four months. When the egg hatches the farther still has to keep the baby chick warm because it could die by coldness. Also, the farther has
Snow Leopard’s are found living in the high, rugged mountains of Central and South Asia. They live in areas like Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The conditions in the high Central Asia Mountains are harsh and brutal. The Snow Leopards are prepared for these types of conditions. Snow Leopards like the jagged broken cliffs, and rocky ravines stalk and sneak up on the nearby prey. Snow Leopards are very nomadic, they constantly move around marking territory to find prey. They look for cliffs that have a good open view to search for prey on. They have thick long fur, which will keep them warm in their cold habitats and which will protect them from the wind. Their bodies are very stocky but have very bulk chests and arms. They also have small rounded ears, which help to minimize heat loss. Their paws are wide to benefit them to walking on snow, a...
Nature is something that no one can be 100 percent sure about and changes in any period of time. The earth’s temperature is dependent on the balance of the energy entering and leaving the planet. According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), change in the planets orbit can lead to an increase on the climate on the planet. Nature also has an effect on climate change with external events, events that are not on the climate system. Volcanic eruptions and change in solar radiation are two of the external events that cause climate to change on earth. Although these two events cause the climate to change, they only have a short term effect (Canada). Islands and dry place are more common to have an increase in temperature because of the amount of energy that is generated and released back to the atmosphere. As the ozone is breaking down, the amount of solar energy being generated and released to the atmosphere is greater than before, which produces an increase on the world’s climate. Movement of crustal plates is also something that changes the climate on earth. The Northern Hemisphere usually gets warmer than the Southern Hemisphere due to the amount of land mass the Northern Hemisphere has. Around every eleven years, according to CSI, the amount of dark sunspots on the sun decrease from the maximum amount of sunspots to the minimum amount. Scientist call
A.According to the article "Why Birds Need native Trees" by Laura Tangley published January, 15, 2015, trees provide shelter and food for a variety of birds and small animals. When we destroy trees we destroy the lives of living organisms. Many animals live in trees and eat off trees. Birds, for example, use trees for nesting, food, and shelter. Increasing growth diversity, trees create an environment that allows the growth of plants that otherwise would not be there. Trees also provide shade, reduce water and air temperatures. It might be easier to list which parts of trees don’t provide food! In spring and summer, birds and small mammals chow on tree flower buds. Tree leaves are eaten by caterpillars and by many other insects and insect larvae. Cherry and plum trees provide berries in late summer, nourishing migratory birds for their