EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -What is a coniferous forest? A coniferous forest contains evergreen trees that bear cones. Elegant pines grow in this biome, along with spruce, fir, and tamarack. In much of the northern forest, the conifers mingle with deciduous trees, particularly aspen, birch, sugar maple, and basswood.

Detailed explanation-2: -Another type, temperate coniferous forests, grows in lower latitudes of North America, Europe, and Asia, in the high elevations of mountains. Coniferous forests consist mostly of conifers, which are trees that grow needles instead of leaves and cones instead of flowers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oaks, elms, ash, and beeches are a few of the deciduous trees that can grow in temperate forests. Some temperate forests have trees with needles rather than leaves. Trees that have needles and cones, like pine cones, are called conifers. A forest with mostly conifers is called a coniferous forest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Coniferous forest is important because they sustain life by providing habitat to the variety of animals such as insects, shrews, squirrels, woodpeckers and nuthatches in these forests. Coniferous forest yield a wide range of non –wood products such as foliage, resin, seeds, and cones.