Grasslands
Shrub and Woodland
Montane Forest
Subalpine
Alpine Tundra
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Where are the Grasslands located?
Plains region in eastern Colorado
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Where is the Shrub and Woodland life zone located?
Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, western Colorado and San Luis Valley
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Where is the Montane Forest located?
The foothills and shrub covered mesas
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Where is the Subalpine life zone located?
Forest area just below mountain peaks
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Where is the Alpine Tundra located?
Above the tree line, the highest mountain peaks
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What is the climate in the Grasslands like?
Arid or dry, less rainfall than any other region
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What is the climate of the Shrub and Woodland life zone?
15-20 inches of rain, temperature is cooler than the plains
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What is the climate of the Montane Forest?
Wet and cool, sunny
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What is the climate of the Subalpine life zone?
Cool, wet, heavy snow and summer rains produce 40-50 inches of precipitation every year
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What is the climate of the Alpine Tundra?
Summers are short, winters are long and cold, windy
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What plants grow in the Grasslands? Name 4 or more.
Short grasses like the blue grama, buffalo grass, winter wheat, crops, cottonwood and willow trees
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What plants grow in the Shrub and Woodland life zone? Name 4.
Grasses, shrubs (woody plants and bushes) like pinons and junipers, low trees like scrub oak and mountain mahogany, grayish-green sagebrush, small groves of trees
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What plants live in the Montane Forest? Name 4
Trees like Ponderosa pines, lodgepole pines, aspens, blue spruce, wildflowers (columbine), shrubs (like juniper bushes, wild strawberries, and wood lilies)
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What plants live in the Subalpine Forest life zone? Name 4.
Engelmann spruce and fir trees, huckleberry and elderberry bushes, moss, dwarf trees,
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What plants live in the Alpine Tundra? Name 3.
Low growing plants and grasses, tiny plants like blue forget-me-nots, pink moss, yellow rydbergia
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What animals live in the Grasslands? Name 5.
Cattle, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, gophers, jackrabbits, lark bunting and other birds.
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What animals live in the Shrub and Woodland life zone?
Mule deer, cottontail rabbits, chipmunks, ground squirrels, mice, coyotes, gray foxes, bobcats, mountain lions, pinon jays, brown towhees, sage grouse
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What animals live in the Montane Forest life zone? Name 5.
Mule deer, black bears, porcupines, elk, bighorn sheep, beavers, chipmunks, squirrels, weasels, martens, fish, finches, jays, magpies, and water pipits
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What animals live in the Subalpine life zone? Name 4.
Bighorn sheep, elk, chipmunks, ground squirrels, packrats, nutcrackers, hummingbirds, American dipper
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What animals live in the Alpine Tundra? Name 3.
Chipmunks, ground squirrels, marmots, pikas, ptarmigan
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What do special things do farmers do in the Grasslands?
Plant winter wheat, harvest wheat before hot summer, irrigate their crops
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Why are shrubs useful plants? Name 2.
Native Americans made bows from wood, ground up leaves and berries to flavor food and to use as medicine. Maple shrubs made arrows and snowshoes. Settlers made tea from the berries.
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How did Native Americans use pine trees? Name 3.
Native Americans made teepee poles, ground up needles to make baby powder, burned fir needles to freshen air, ate inner bark like candy, used the sap as sugar.
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What are "banner trees"?
Trees at timberline that grow branches only on the side opposite the wind. The branches look like banners (or flags) flying in the wind.
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How do the ptarmigan survive?
To blend in with the landscape, ptarmigans shed their feathers 3 times a year. They change colors from gray to speckled gray to white. They dig burrows in the snow. They eat twigs, leaves, and seeds of tundra plants.
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