In summation, land and wildlife study and conservation remains an important issue. Ever growing numbers of people enjoy visiting wild parks, however, they must also remain aware of the true reason the parks exist. In addition to beauty, National Parks are priceless areas that provide the study of wildlife and the local environment in order to better understand how to protect them for future generations to enjoy.…
Madagascar has several biomes on the island. It has man-made grasslands, tropical rain forest, and dry forest. The tropic rain forest is one of the major biomes and it consist of four levels, the forest floor, the emergent layer, canopy layer, and the understory level. The rain forest is also home to much biodiversity.…
1. What are Madagascar’s biomes? Discuss the major features of at least one of these biomes. Use the textbook for biome examples. Madagascar is a tropical rainforest, rain forest savanna and grasslands. The rain forest receives 120 inches of rain at least a year. It has very wet and dense vegetation within the trees. Anywhere from 70 plus percent of animal life lives in the trees. It is filled with lakes, river, swamps and a wide variety of different terrain. There is an overabundance of green plant life that strives on the heavy rains received each year. The forest floor is full of nutrients which the large tree strive on giving the canopy effects and which houses so much plant and animal life.…
The Island of Madagascar consists of three different biomes, being tropical dry forest, tropical rain forest, and desert. In a tropical rain forest biome temperatures remain warm thought the year and precipitation occurs on an almost daily basis. This type of biome contains three levels of vegetation and only about two or three percent of the sunlight striking the canopy reaches the lowest level.…
Madagascar’s biomes are tropical forest and temperate rainforest. Madagascar has steady high temperatures year round. Madagascar has high mountain ecosystems.…
A group of archaeologists discovered a lost island. The island was once the ancient city of Kane. It was discovered in the eastern Aegean Sea. Xenophon was a Greek historian that mentioned the island. The island is memorable because of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C.…
The people who are interested in wildlife would be very eager to watch the wonderful animal life of the island. Now let us see what the important animals that we can see here. The endemic flora and fauna of the region is very rich. One can have countless wonderful experiences with these animals. In the entire USA, this is the region which has the highest percentage of endemic species of plants and animals. The climate of this region also supports a large number of different plants and animals to grow freely and profusely.…
There are about 30 to 35 different types of Lemurs but there has been so many new species that they are not sure how many there is exactly. In Madagascar there is about 11 different kind and some of them are about to be instinct depending on the area they live in due to environmental changes.…
First, an island got its creation. With the features of a temperate forest, rainforest, grasslands, and dry grassland with 5 animals. A Deer, Monkey, Zebra, Jack Rabbit, and finally, their predator, the Tigers. It underwent…
Elegant Waved Albatross - rarest birds on Earth; only nests here II. Describe the biological interrelationships among the life forms in the area. A. Island of Fernandina; only island on Earth not afflicted with invasive species B. Symbiotic C. Evolution III. The human intrusions threatening the area. A. Destroying wildlife habitat – Introducing new animals B. Population growth - Government subsidies – C. Pollution - trash IV.…
The Rainbow Island, The Red Island, The Eighth Continent, officially The Republic of Madagascar also known as Madagascar is the fourth largest Island nation. Its size is 226,657 square miles, slightly less than twice the size of Arizona. Madagascar is located just east of the coast of Mozambique South Africa, right across the Mozambique Channel. In-between Madagascar and Mozambique is the Comoros Islands. Also known as the eighth continent, Madagascar has been given this mainly because of its unique variety of animals and plants found nowhere else on earth. This is also and relating to the fact that Madagascar broke apart from the prehistoric supercontinent, Gondwana, during the Jurassic period is very interesting. Madagascar is said to have…
Madagascar is small country right outside of Africa. The people of Madagascar are also known as the Malagasy. There are around twenty-five million people and many die every year because of water sanitation. Over two thousand and one hundred kids die every year because they don’t have healthy water so they drink contaminated water, which makes them sick and kills them. Over three hundred and fifteen thousand kids die from diarrhoeal diseases.…
In the Island of Plenty Montgomery argues that America should not share its resources with other countries of the world until we have enough food to feed all the Americans. Although this sounds harsh and has some truth to it, I don’t feel that we should deny anyone of anything. If someone is hungry it’s completely selfish and heartless to not give them some food. If we’re not doing anything nice for anyone how could we ever expect anyone to do anything nice for us? As humans I feel that we have the responsibility of managing our material resources and family sizes in order to be able to support our families and help those in need.…
There is some wildlife found on the islands that was not there many years ago. These include goats, pigs, rats, and many domesticated pets that were brought to the islands, either purposely or accidentally, by tourists and migrants who came to live in paradise. Once the animals were introduced to…
The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal, between the Indian peninsula to the west and Burma to the north and east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India, while a small number in the north of the archipelago belong to Burma. 12 00 N92 45 E is the longitude and longitude of these islands.…