Warm-up:

Warm up: Coastal Dunes

• What’s alive in this picture? What is non-living?

• Make a T-chart and list.
 Coastal Dune Scrub
• There are nonliving and
li i ffactors
living t th
thatt interact.
i t t
• Which of the nonliving
factors change on a daily
b i ?
basis?
• What is the only living thing
that doesn’t leave?
General Environmental Conditions

• The weather changes

every day
day, so plants can
give you clues about
what the environment is
usually like.
 What can these plants tell you about
the usual weather
( i f ll ttemperature,
(rainfall, t etc.)?
t )?

Tropical Rainforest
 What can these plants tell you about
the usual weather
((rainfall, temperature,
p etc.)?
)
North American Desert
 Coastal Dune Scrub

• As you look at these plants

plants, do
theyy remind you
y more of a
rainforest or a desert?
• Be ready to explain your
decision!
Mock Heather
with flowers
 Silver Dune Lupine

Mock Heather
Black
Sage
Wallflower
California Aster
• The plants have small
leaves and go dormant
leaves,
during the summer, so…
 CDS Environment
• There
There’s s not very much rain!
• The pplants are ggrowing
g in
sandy soil- there’s not much
nutrition for them
them.
• Where do they get
nutrients?
 Lichens

• Lichens=
Lichens fungus+algae
• They
The dissol
dissolve
ennutrients
trients
in sand and wood to
release minerals for
p
plants.
 Vegetation Layers

• Tree Layer-
Layer tallest,
tallest makes
shade
• Shrub Layer-
y 1’-6’ tall,,
woody stems
• Herb Layer- soft stems,
growing low to ground
Tree? Shrub? Herb?
Tree? Shrub? Herb?
Buck Brush

CROTON
Tree? Shrub? Herb?
Tree? Shrub? Herb?
Tree? Shrub? Herb?