Animals From Desert and Forest Habitats

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Animals From Desert and Forest Habitats

• A science fact book created by Miss Vatnes third
  grade class.
• Fall 2005

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• We have learned that a habitat is a place where
  plants and animals live. In science, we studied
  both desert habitats and forest habitats. Each
  student has researched and prepared a page for
  one specific animal from either the desert or the
  forest.

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The ForestWritten by the students in Miss
Vatnes class.

• Forests have lots of plants.
• The forest can get 40 degrees below zero in the
  winter.
• Forests have a lot of rain.
• Forests have a lot of trees.
• The forest has a lot of different animals
• The forest has lakes, rivers, and streams.
• The forest has four seasons summer, fall,
  winter, and spring.
• The forest has a lot of leaves on the ground when
  it is Autumn.
• When it is winter, the ponds freeze and the fish
  and frogs go to the bottom.
• In the winter, the forest is very cold.
• When it is spring, the trees grow the leaves
  back.
• They have Maple, Pine, and Oak trees in the
  Wisconsin forests.
• Ferns grow in shady places in the forest.

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The DesertWritten by the students in Miss
Vatnes Class

• The desert has a lot of cactuses.
• The deserts in the United States are very hot
  during the day and cold at night.
• Deserts are very dry.
• The desert only gets 15 centimeters or less a
  year.
• Some animals go underground so they can stay
  cool.
• Deserts have no snow.
• Each year it rains once in the desert. The next
  day, the water evaporates.
• Many animals get water from eating bugs.
• The desert has a lot of sand.
• The desert is a habitat for a lot of animals.
• When it rains in the desert, the Saguaro Cactus
  sucks up all the rain with its long roots.
• The stem of the Saguaro Cactus has a hard waxy
  covering that keeps the plant from drying out.
• In the desert, there are a lot of dead trees and
  plants.

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Table of Contents

• The Desert
• Antelope Jackrabbit Raymond
• Black-Collared Lizards Nakita
• Coyote Katelyn
• Desert Tortoise Perla
• The Gila Monster Karla
• Great-Horned Owl Tim
• Kit Fox Efrain
• Mountain Lion John
• Ords Kangaroo Rat Xavier
• Rattlesnake Ally
• Red-Tailed Hawk Mario
• Roadrunner Josh N
• Tarantula Andrea

• The Forest
• American Beaver Riley
• Black Bear Ashlee
• Bobcat Selena
• Common Gray Fox Brandon
• Eastern Chipmunk Kyle
• Eastern Cottontail Jesus
• Easter Gray Squirrel Gracyela
• Gray Wolf Jordan
• Northern River Otter Josh E
• Red Fox Marcus
• Striped Skunk Kim
• White-Tailed Deer Madison

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Antelope Jackrabbit
By Raymond
Miss Vatne

The antelope jackrabbit eat grass.
The Antelope Jackrabbit live on the hill.
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Rattlesnakes
Allyson Simon
When temperatures begin to warm in May and
early June,snakes come out of hibernation
The Pacific rattler sometimes
grows a length of 5 feet.
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Eastern Gray Squirrel
By Gracyela Ramos
These familiar squirrels live in eastern leafy
forests.
They eat a lot of hickory nuts and acorns.
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Gray Wolf
By Jordan Rowley
The Gray Wolf is 100 years old.
The Gray Wolf is an endangered Species.
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Northern River Otter
Josh Eckert
Otters are well trained.
Otters are good mothers.
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The Gila Monster
A Gila Monster lives in the Sonoran Desert
and other places.
A Gila Monster eats birds and eggs.
By Karla
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Striped Skunk
By Kimberly Matthews
Woodland ,grasslands, Deserts and suburbs.
Black and white furry and the size of a cat.
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EASTERN CHIPMUNK
By Kyle
it comes above ground on a warm winter day
they eat in a under ground house
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Red Fox
marcus
He is going to get Bird.
The Red fox is going to get his prey.
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Red Tailed -Hawk
They eat fish
They live in the Southern des
Mario Saucedo
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Black Collared Lizards
Nakita Johnson
By
All Collared Lizards are members of
Iguanid family.
Mojave and Sonorar deserts of Baja.
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Bobcat
By selena
Bobcats are fast runners.
Bobcats live in habitats.
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Ords kangaroo rat
A kangroo rats tail is Long
It body are 4-5 inch
Xavier laurelez
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Black Bear
By Ashlee
Black bears dont eat meat, instead they
eat berries and fruit.
Black bears are not dangerous if you
get near them.
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Common Gray Fox
By Brandon Cruz
Foxes feed on grass, grapes, mice, and other
small mammals.
The Common Gray Fox is a good tree climber.
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Kit Fox
By.Efrain
They can run 25 miles per hour.
They live in the desert rocks.
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• Eastern Cottontail

• By Jesus Parra

• Eastern Cottontail
• lives in lonely
• farms.

• It only comes out
• night.

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Puma
ByJohn Rich
They bury their leftovers in the ground.
They have sharp teeth for eating.
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Road Runner
By Josh N
Roadruners lives in the desert in the
southwest.
Roadruners eat snakes and lizerds and
insects.
                                 
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By, Katelyn
Coyote
Some people think that Brush Wolves are Coyotes.
Coyotes live in bushy places in the west..
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Desert Tortoise
By Perla Lozano
They live in the desert, and they drink water

They walk around the desert Slowly.
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American Beaver
By Riley Munoz
The American Beaver mostly lives in the U.S.
and Canada.
The American Beavers live in streams, ponds,
and rivers.
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Tarantula
Andrea Rodriguez
They live in new Mexico, Arizona, and
Southern California.
A tarantula will only kill if something is
messing with its web .
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Great Horned Owl
By Tim
They eat bugs.
They hunt at night when it is cool outside.
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White tailed deer
White tailed deer live in suburbs, woods,
brushy areas and farmlands.
They 24 48 highth tail is 6-13 They weigh
90-310!
Madison Robinson