These are my notes from my planet line.
I really enjoyed my walk I learned a lot about how to identify species and I noticed how much you really see when you stop to look.
LOCATION: Earth, North America, USA, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Norfolk, (NEIGHBORHOOD?)
BIOME: Eastern Deciduous Forest w/ coniferous trees
- terrestrial biome
- aquatic biome: wetlands (marshlands)
Wetlands
Wetlands are areas of standing water that support aquatic plants. Marshes, swamps, and bogs are all considered wetlands. Plant species adapted to the very moist and humid conditions are called hydrophytes. These include pond lilies, cattails, sedges, tamarack, and black spruce. Marsh flora also include such species as cypress and gum. Wetlands have the highest species diversity of all ecosystems. Many species of amphibians, reptiles, birds (such as ducks and waders), and furbearers can be found in the wetlands. Wetlands are not considered freshwater ecosystems as there are some, such as salt marshes, that have high salt concentrations—these support different species of animals, such as shrimp, shellfish, and various grasses.
Temperate deciduous forest
-climate: four seasons, temperature ranges from approximately 27 C/32 C to -1 C/-15 C, trees in deciduous forest lose leaves during winter, except cone trees.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/aquatic.html
Latitude: temperate
Humidity: semihumid
Elevation: 65 meters (212 feet)
Watershed:
A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place. John Wesley Powell, scientist geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is:
"that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community."
Date of Walk Part 1: 4/17/12
Weather on 4/17: Hot, Sunny, approx 88 degrees
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