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=Chaparrals = === The world's smallest Biome  === =............................................................................................. = = = ===Let's look at the food chain before we do anything else.  ===  Plants are eaten by minor animals such as skunks, minor animals are eaten by predators such as Pumas. =............................................................................................. =

Top 10 Important Chaparral Facts
1. The Chaparral is (as said above) the world's smallest biome. 2. The Chaparral has a nickname - the "Scrub Biome." 3. The Chaparral has different names for every region.
 * The Maquis region is in Europe and California.
 * The Garigue region is in Europe.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Coatal Scrub region is in California.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Mixed region is in California.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Montane region is in the California Mountains.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">4. The name "Chaparral" means "Scrub Oak" in Spanish 5. The Chaparral is almost always on the left side of a continent. 6. The Chaparral was formed because of human activity. 7. The Chaparral has rugged terrain. 8. The Chaparral has either a hot, dry, climate, or a cool, wet climate. 9. The Chaparral is in 5 out of 7 continents.<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 10. The Chaparral has been used in some movies as the "Wild West."

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<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Climate

 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Can either be cool and wet with low atmospheric pressure, or hot and dry with low atmospheric pressure.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The average Chaparral temperatures are 30 Fahrenheit through 100 Fahrenheit.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Chaparral gets only 10-17 inches of precipitation a year.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Chaparral is a mid-latitude biome.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The Chaparral is continually battered by westward winds.

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 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Caracal
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Chipmunk
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Coyote
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Gembsbok
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Gerenuk
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Komodo Dragon
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Meerkat
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Peccary (A.K.A. Javelina)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Red Kangaroo
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Wallaby

=<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">............................................................................................. = ===<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">10 Examples Of Chaparral Plantlife <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> === =<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">............................................................................................. = ===<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Soil <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> === <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The soil in the Chaparral Biome is very nutrient poor.The plants that grow there have adapted to either suck up the few nutrients in the soil or live off almost only photosynthesis. = = = = = = =<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">............................................................................................. =
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Blue Oak
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Coyote Brush
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Common Sagebrush
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Fairy Duster
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">French Broom
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">King Protea
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Lebanon Cedar
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Manzanita
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Mountain Mahogany
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Saltmarsh Bird's Beak

<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Chaparral Future
<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> The Chaparral was helped by humans by the fact that it was made because of human activity. The makers of this web page believe that the Chaparral biome will survive because humans are making it as you read this web page. You may not believe me, but it IS being made. =<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">............................................................................................. =

<span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Now That We're Done, Here Are Some Chaparral Pictures!

 * [[image:torreypine.jpg caption="Torrey Pine"]] || [[image:king_protea.jpg width="211" height="195" caption="King Protea"]] ||
 * [[image:chaparral-growth.jpg caption="Chaparral"]] || [[image:chaparral_sml.jpg caption="Another Chaparral Picture"]] ||
 * [[image:french_broom.jpg caption="French Broom"]] ||  ||

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