adaptations for Skunks and

Skunk Cabbage
By Amanda
The skunk and skunk
cabbage both have
interesting ways to
adapt to forests and
swamps environments.
Here are some of the
similarities of the
spotted skunk and
skunk cabbage. They
both live in North
America. The spotted
skunk and skunk
cabbage both smell
bad. People, other
animals and insects
really do not like that
smell.
 
You can find them in your backyard. Skunk
cabbage has a soft stem. Sometimes it smells
like rotten eggs that is why people, insects and
other animals don't like the smell. Their smell
protects them from any of their predators that
will hurt them.
Now I will tell
you the
difference
between skunk
cabbage and
spotted skunk. I
am going to talk
about how
skunks adapt to
their
environment.
The difference
between a plant
and animal is
that skunk
cabbage lives in
low swamps and
skunks live in
forests. Only the
skunk cabbage
lives in Eastern
America.
The spotted skunk eats caterpillars, insects,
beetles, crickets, grasshoppers and skunk
cabbage. To give a warning, all skunks stamps
their front feet and raise their tails. The spotted
has large blotches of white on its body and
grows to about 7 to 14 inches.
In the Tropical Rain
Forest the trees are
really interesting. One
interesting tree is the
kapok tree. The kapok
tree adapts in the rain
forest because it is
about 200 feet tall. It is
dark in the rain forest
but because the kapok
tree is so tall it reaches
above the other trees
and the sun gives it
food. Inside the
seedcase is fruit. The
seed case is hard and
silk cotton. Only
strong animals can
open the seed case.
Next, I will tell you about the Bromeliad. The
Bromeliad plant adapts in the rain forest
because it has an urn, like a vase, in its center.
The urn helps it adapt because the insects fall
inside the urn and make minerals. Also,
because the color is green and mostly plant
color. It also has stiff, spiky leaves. The height
of the Bromeliad is 30 inches, or seventy eight
centimeters. Also, it has tiny flowers on it.
Last but not least, the urn is pollinated by
insects. If you do not know what pollinate
means, it means bees get pollen from the
flowers, so the bees get food and the flowers
can make new seeds so they live on. To sum it
up, all those were the most interesting facts.
 
 Weather
In the desert, tropical rain forests and
temperate forests, the weather is not all the
same.

First of all the desert can have no rain for

years. The desert is dry in some places. Plants
have spikes on them instead of leaves, to stop
the sun from drying them up. The plants are
not that tall.
In the rain forest it rains more than 80 inches a
year. It can rain three hundred to four hundred
inches a year in some rain forests. It is always
like summer, warm and humid in the rain
forest. In the temperate forest it can rain 30 to
40 inches a year. The temperate forest has four
seasons, winter, spring, fall and summer. In
conclusion the temperate forests, tropical rain
forests and deserts' main differences are the
amount of sunshine each area receives.
Keel-Billed Toucans
The keel-billed toucan
is a beautiful and
active bird. First, their
habitats are tropical
rainforests or open
woodland bordering
farmland in South
America. Its
distribution is northern
and central South
America. It adapts
there by eating fruit,
insects and other small
animals. It defends
itself by using its sharp
eyesight for spotting
friends and foes, and
by flying away high
into the air.