Environments

Swish! The ocean's waves tumble on to a beach. Farther out the wind blows the savannah grass to the east. In a dense rainforest nearby the stillness is broken by the screeches of monkeys and the squawks of birds. Around the world there are many different types of environments that suit animals in that area. For example, the grassland is for the zebra because it finds its food there. Some environments are the ocean, the grassland, the rainforest, the forest, freshwaters, prairies, savannas, deserts, and beaches. Some of these places are very colorful, like the rainforest. Others are very bare for miles, like the desert. The ocean has many lairs to it, as well as the rainforest. The bottom part of the rainforest is the forest floor. This lair contains many mammals like the tapir. It also has jaguars on the floor as well in the understory. The understory has not very many animals, but it can contain snakes and bugs. All the other lairs have many bugs in them. Next is the canopy, which has sunlight unlike the lairs before it. This lair has monkeys and birds. But in every area of rainforest, you have a chance of finding an emergent tree. These trees are very tall and also have birds and monkeys. The lairs of the ocean are the splash zone, the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the dark zone, and the hydrothermal vents. The deepest point in any of the oceans is the Marianas Trench. How would it be to live down there?

By Tessa Sagner