BIOL 2903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Acer Pensylvanicum, Trillium Grandiflorum, Eastern Chipmunk
8 Oct 2018
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Lots of herps such as bullfrog, spotted salamander, snapping turtle. I(cid:374) part, the park"s gla(cid:272)ial history: glacial till (which is a mixture of all the particle sizes) comes from the glaciers themselves. As the glaciers move across ontario they pick up and grind up debris as they slowly move. Algonquin, depositing material sorted by size and weight. In areas where it slowed down around a bend, it left behind huge beds of sand: sand drains very well. Unlike till, it does not retain moisture at all so it is a very dry substrate: pines grow well in dry, sandy sites. So have heavy cover of pines in the. East: a glacial river draining lake algonquin flowed through eastern. The higher: elevation also brings a change in temperature and precipitation elevation of the west side, as the moist air going from west to east hits the higher elevation, the air cools down and starts dropping its moisture.
