Garden City School Library: Grade 2 - Living Among Local Animals

Biomes are regions of the world with similar climate (weather and temperature), animals, and plants. The Eastern United States is a temperate deciduous forest biome. 

This biome has four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall (when the leaves change color fall off the "decidous" trees). 

Animals in temperate deciduous forests have to survive both cold winters and hot summers. Some animals hibernate, some migrate during the winter to escape the cold, and some have special adaptations to deal with higher exposure to predators in the winter. For example, many animals in this biome are camouflaged to look like the ground.

Rhode Island is home to over 800 native and non-native wildlife species! How many can you find using these resources?

Web site logo	Web site name	What you will find
	A-Z Animals	an article with sections for types of animals in RI: large mammals, rodents and other small mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, insects, and fish (site has ads)
	Exploring Nature	a page with lists of RI mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles (created for students)
	iNaturalist	a site with photos of tons of RI animals ... the link will take you to "chordates," and you can drill down to fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles (names and photos only)
	RI Department of Environmental Management	a page with a list of RI animals and PDF fact sheets for each one
	URI Rhode Island Woods	an article with sections for types of RI animals: mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and invertebrates
	World Book article on Forests	on the left-hand side, you will see a link to a general "Animals of temperate forests" video