AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -B. BOREAL FOREST (TAIGA): dense evergreen needle-leafed forest Typical plants include white spruce, black spruce, and jack pine. Typical animals include moose, black bears, wolves, and migrant birds. Cold winters with deep snow, but longer growing season than tundra.

Detailed explanation-2: -taiga, also called boreal forest, biome (major life zone) of vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in northern circumpolar forested regions characterized by long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stretching across 1.5 billion acres of the Northern Hemisphere-from Canada to Scandinavia to Russia (the Taiga) to Japan-the Boreal forests are the most carbon dense forest systems on Earth. They are home to hundreds of Indigenous communities, centuries-old conifers, mossy peatlands, and large caribou herds.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ready for Snow! Coniferous trees like spruce, hemlock, pine and fir are commonly found in the taiga. Most coniferous trees are evergreen and are specially adapted to survive in this biome. Evergreen trees are cone-shaped to help snow slide off them so the branches won’t break.

Detailed explanation-5: -Taiga (also known as boreal forest) is the northernmost and coldest forest on earth, dominated by species of evergreen conifers spruce, fir and pine, the deciduous conifer larch, and species of birch and aspen. It occurs in vast tracts across Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and northeastern China.