By: Toneka Clark

Plants have to survive a long dry season each year deciduous trees shed their leaves to cope Sunlight can then reach the ground, so the season that's bad for the trees is good for the forest floor generally less biodiversity here than in a rainforest, ground- dwellers in the resulting thick undergrowth. When conditions are dry animals go into a deep sleep called estivation.

 The natural recycling of leaves from the trees help to keep the soil good and rich.

 Temperatures are high all year but there is a better developed dry season than the tropical rain forest.  Evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation for enough of the year to have a significant effect on the vegetation.

 Across the globe people have converted a great deal of tropical dry forest for farming and ranching.  Most trees are deciduous which means they loose their leaves an stop photosynthesis during part of the year.  Thick bark on the tree protects from fires.  Animals migrate to areas where water is plentiful.  It rains heavily during the wet seasons.

 Plantae: Deciduous shrubs, Acacias, Deciduous trees, Legumes, orchids, bromeliads

 Lizard  Foxes  Mountain Lion  Tiger  Bobcat

length of around 14 inches Very aggressive eat insects like mealworms and crickets Have sticky pads on the feet for climbing Known to attack snakes and lizards

 Some thick skin  Can survive many days without eating  They are fierce and aggressive - Gecko  Some are really fast  Can reduce metabolism

 Deforestation  Extinction  Habitat Laws  Soil Erosion  Climate Change  Pollution

 Stop man-made fire  Conserve a maximum number species  Reintroduce organisms  Stop hunting, cattle ranching, and other free range perturbations

1. What is a deciduous tree? 2. What is the dominant wildlife in a tropical dry forest? 3. What herbivores live in a tropical dry forest? 4. What birds live in a tropical dry forest? 5. What reptiles live in a tropical dry forest? 6. When do deciduous trees form a canopy? 7. How long do tokay geckos generally get? 8. What do tokay geckos eat? 9. Today are tokay geckos aggressive? 10. Today geckos have been known to attack snakes and lizards

1. A tree that sheds its leaves during a particular season 2. tigers and monkeys 3. Elephants, hog deer 4. hornbill, pied harner, and pelican 5. Snakes and monitor lizards 6. During the wet season inches 8. Crickets, and mealworms 9. True 10. True