EJARA, JAMAICA S.

ZGE 4301 BFN 2E

Activity Number: M2. 1 Activity Name: Bio-interactive Module

COUNTRY BIOME PRECIPITATION FOREST ANIMAL

COVER POPULATION
PHILIPPINES TROPICAL AND The tropical rains FAO, 25.7% or There are over
SUBTROPICAL MOIST typically occur in about 52,000
BROADLEAF FOREST the form 7,665,000 ha of species of
of downpours or Philippines is animals that live
thunderstorms in forested, in the
the afternoon, according to Philippines. This
except during FAO. Of this country is home
tropical storms 11.2% ( to the rarest
and typhoons, 861,000 ) is crocodile, the
which can last classified as second-smallest
for a few days primary forest, primate, and the
and are the most second-largest
accompanied by biodiverse and gecko on earth. It
strong winds. carbon-dense is also home to
form of forest. some of the
Philippines had world's most
352,000 ha of unique marine
planted forest. life.
NEW YORK Temperate Deciduous Statewide New York state A wide variety of
Forest. average is 61% forested animal species
precipitation is - forests cover are still found
a little over 40 18.6 million within the city,
inches annually; acres of our including 80
this varies 30.2 million species of fish,
 regionally, with total acres. scores of birds
mountainous Much of this from
regions of the land is privately the peregrine
state receiving owned and falcon to the
more than 50 managed for pigeon, and such
inches per year. wood or pulp. mammals as the
Statewide annual Most of the raccoon and the
precipitation has land owned by occasional urban
ranged from a the State is coyote. Wildlife
low of 31.56 forested. refuges
inches in 1964 to at Jamaica
a high of 55.71 Bay and
inches in 2011. in Clove Lakes
(Staten Island)
and Alley Pond
(Queens) parks
provide
sanctuaries for
many species,
allowing them to
survive even
within an
unfavourable
city environment.
USA The temperate The contiguous As of The incredible
deciduous forest U.S. average 2016, roughly 2,972 estimated
biome occupies most of annual 36.21% (about animals native to
the eastern part of the precipitation one-third of the the United States
United States and a was 30.28 U.S.) is makes it one of
small strip of southern inches, which is forested. only 17
Ontario. 0.34 inches Excluding the megadiverse
 above the long- U.S. territories, countries in the
term average, forested land in world.
ranking in the the U.S. covers
middle third of roughly
the historical 818,814,000
record. Above- acres
average annual (3,313,622
precipitation was square
observed from kilometers). As
the Great Lakes of 2005, the
and Plains to the United States
Southeast and ranked seventh
Mid-Atlantic in the rate of
regions loss of its old
growth forests.
SYDNEY Grassy woodlands, The rainfall in The study, There are both
the most predominant Sydney is conducted by native and
biome in the Sydney significant, with the University introduced
region, precipitation of Technology mammals living
mainly occur in the even during the Sydney, found in Sydney. The
Cumberland Plain driest month. that Hobart was most common
west of Sydney CBD, According to the “greenest” natives are
which generally feature Köppen and capital city in possums, gliders,
eucalyptus trees that Geiger, this the country, kangaroos and
are usually in open, climate is with 59% of the wallabies. With a
dry sclerophyll classified as Cfa. Tasmanian little bit of effort,
woodland areas The average capital covered you can also find
with shrubs (typically annual by tree echidnas,
wattles, temperature in canopies. bandicoots,
callistemons, grevilleas Sydney is 18.0 koalas, wombats
°C | 64.5 °F. and bats. The
 and banksias) and Precipitation Brisbane, at introduced
sparse grass in here is about 49%, and rabbits are a
the understory, 912 mm | 35.9 Darwin, at 28%, common sight in
reminiscent inch per year. make up the the city parks
of Mediterranean top three cities. and foxes can
forests. Melbourne and often be spotted
Sydney took in the suburbs.
out the bottom
two positions,
at 13% and
15%
respectively.
AFRICA The African savanna The full According to
ecosystem is a tropical development of the U.N. Africa is the
grassland with warm this tropical FAO, 22.7% or world's second
temperatures year- formation about largest continent
round and with its requires 674,419,000 ha with almost 12
highest seasonal continuously of Africa is million square
rainfall in the summer. warm conditions forested, miles of tropical
The savanna is and an annual according to rain forests,
characterized by rainfall FAO. Change deserts and vast
grasses and small or exceeding 50 to in Forest savannas. There
dispersed trees that do 60 inches (1,270 Cover: are over one
not form a closed to 1,520 Between 1990 million species
canopy, allowing millimetres) and 2010, of animals in
sunlight to reach the distributed fairly Africa lost an Africa, including
ground. evenly over the average of both the heaviest
year. The vertical 3,740,950 ha or (elephants) and
limit is about 0.50% per year. the tallest
3,500 to 4,000 (giraffes) land
feet. animals on Earth.
ALASKA Much of Alaska and On average, Alaska—10.9 Nearly 1,100
about half of Canada Anchorage million acres vertebrate
are in the tundra biome. receives 16 or 48 species regularly
Tundra is also found at inches (410 percent—is occur in Alaska.
the tops of very high mm) of defined as Although no one
mountains elsewhere in precipitation a forest land has an exact
the world. year, with around (figs. 2 and 4). count, thousands
75 inches (1.91 The Tongass of invertebrates
m) of snow. The National are also thought
northern coast of Forest1 to live in diverse
the Gulf of manages over marine, aquatic,
Alaska receives 85 percent of and terrestrial
up to 150 inches the forest land habitats across
(3,810.0 mm) of in southeast the state.
precipitation Alaska; other
annually. federal
agencies
manage 5
percent, state
and local
agencies
manage 4
percent, and
the remaining 5
percent is
privately
owned.
REFERENCES:

PHILIPPINES

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/location/asia/philippines/

https://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/Philippines.htm

https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/philippines

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ecological-regions-of-the-philippines.html

NEW YORK

https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-City/Climate-and-plant-and-animal-life

https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/309.html

https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/ny/

https://prezi.com/qxoxwtpp6l-q/the-biome-of-new-york-
city/#:~:text=%2D%20New%20York%20City%20is%20part%20of%20the%20Temperat
e%20Deciduous%20Forest

USA

http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/forsite/tdfbiome.htm

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/202013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_the_United_States#:~:text=As%20of%202016%
2C%20roughly%2036.21,of%20its%20old%20growth%20forests.

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/location/north-america/united-states/

SYDNEY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology_of_Sydney#:~:text=Grassy%20woodlands%2C%2
0the%20most%20predominant,and%20sparse%20grass%20in%20the

https://en.climate-data.org/oceania/australia/new-south-wales/sydney-24/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/sydney-melbourne-least-tree-biggest-
cities

https://www.thewildlifediaries.com/sydney-animals-wildlife-in-sydney/

AFRICA

https://www.britannica.com/place/Africa/Climate#:~:text=The%20full%20development%
20of%20this,about%203%2C500%20to%204%2C000%20feet.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/african-savanna-
illustration/#:~:text=The%20African%20savanna%20ecosystem%20is,sunlight%20to%2
0reach%20the%20ground.

https://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/Africa.htm#:~:text=According%20t
o%20the%20U.N.,ha%20or%200.50%25%20per%20year.

https://www.animalfactsencyclopedia.com/African-animals.html

ALASKA

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/biome/biotundra.php#:~:text=Much%20of%20Alaska
%20and%20about,mountains%20elsewhere%20in%20the%20world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Alaska

https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=animals.main

https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr609.pdf