Elsemere
Island
Locations of places in the video
It’s a Jungle out There
Greenland
Canada
The Alps mountains (circled in red)
Tasmania
42 degrees S.
Africa
Mt. Kenya
Sonoran Desert in
Arizona
Namib Desert
Great Basin
Mojave
Sonoran
Chihuahuan
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Mt. Roraima
Distribution of cypress in SE U.S.
B R A Z I L
Distribution of Mangrove (in red): tropical low energy coastal
woody plants that tolerate salt water
Kelp plants grow on rocks in cool coastal waters. Some are low
growing shrubby plants. Others like giant kelp grow very tall.
Only kelp plants with air bladders form kelp “forests.”
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/Education/Learning_Resources/
Voyager_for_Kids/kelpvoyager/forests2.html
Open sea
Queensland,
tropical rainforest
Australia's rainforest
is said to be about
100 million years old,
the oldest rainforest
on Earth. In contrast,
the Amazonian
Rainforest is only
approximately 10
million years
old. North
Queensland’s
Rainforest has the
highest diversity of
endemic species
anywhere in the
world.
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