94 Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 5A | Animals of the Temperate Deciduous Forest Habitat
Show image 5A-2: Great Smoky Mountains
This forest is also a national park called Great Smoky Mountains
National Park and is one of the most visited national parks in the
United States. The mountains are named for the blue-gray mist
that surrounds the mountain peaks.
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Temperate
- In today’s read-aloud you will hear that areas in the world that
have temperate weather can support many different kinds of
plants and animals. - Say the word temperate with me three times.
- Temperate means weather that is not too hot and not too cold.
Temperate describes the weather of places that experience all
four seasons. - A temperate region never gets too cold, like the Arctic, or too
hot, like the desert.
The United States is located in a temperate region of the
world. - [Show images of the four seasons.] Do we live in a temperate
area? Do we experience four seasons where we live? Does it
get as cold as the Arctic where we live? Does it get as hot as
the desert?
Deciduous Forest
Show image 5A-2: Great Smoky Mountains - In today’s lesson you will hear about a habitat called the
deciduous forest. - Say deciduous forest with me three times.
- A deciduous forest is a forest full of plants such as trees and
bushes that lose their leaves in the fall and grow their leaves
back in the spring. - The Smoky Mountains in this picture is one example of the
many deciduous forests in the world.