What is the difference between a deciduous forest and a coniferous forest?

Question

they seem the same to me and i can't tell the difference. Please explain to me how they are different.

Answer 1

deciduous forests lose their leaves every year as the seasons change. coniferous forests are needled trees and evergreens that produce ''cones'' and they stay green all year round.

Answer 2

Deciduous And Coniferous Forests

Answer 3

CAREFUL! These answers are mostly correct...talk with someone in Wisconsin or Zermatt, you will find deciduous conifers (Larch, Larix sp). Deciduous trees lose their leaves all at once. Conifers, are mostly evergreen (still lose their needles every now and again...but not all at once), but can be deciduous. Well known deciduous forests are oak/maple. Well known coniferous forests are pine.

Answer 4

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The average temperature of the forest is about 50 degrees F. The average amount of rainfall in the forest is 30 to 60 inches a year. As the seasons change, so do the colors of the leaves of the deciduous. During the winter months water is generally not available to keep the leaves of some plants alive. Therefore, the leaves of some plants fall off and grow back in the spring. Those plants, like evergreens, keep their leaves during the winter have special adaptations to stay alive. You can learn more about the vegetation of deciduous biomes. Precipitation in the temperate deciduous forest is spread throughout the year. However, during the winter months it is usually frozen and unavailable to animals. Animals living within this biome must adjust to cold winters and hot summers. Leaves generally fall off in the fall, leaving animals with less cover to hide themselves from predators. In the deciduous forest there are many flowers like the passion berry and the blue lily. There are many other flowers but those are some of the main ones. The Deciduous forest does not have much vegetation but there are many trees that contain outrageous amounts of flowers. Animals need these trees because they provide shelter and some use them for food and even water from the leaves. The trees adapt to this forest by having thick bark barriers on the trees to keep the animals out and the trees from dying. The coniferous forest includes areas such as the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southwestern South America, the rain forests of New Zealand and Tasmania, northwest Europe (small pockets in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Iceland and a somewhat larger area in Norway), southern Japan, and the eastern Black Sea-Caspian Sea region of Turkey and Georgia to northern Iran. The moist conditions of temperate rain forests generally support an understory of mosses, ecosystem and are notable for trees of massive proportions, including Giant Sequoi (Sequoiadendron gigantea), Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis), Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) and Kauri (Agathis australis). These forests are quite rare, occurring in small areas of North America, southwestern South America and northern New Zealand. The Klamath-Siskiyou forests of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon is known for its rich variety of plant and animal species, including many endemic species.

Answer 5

Deciduous trees shed their leaves in the fall, and coniferous trees are also known as ever-greens.

Answer 6

A decidous forest goes dormant while a Coniferous forest is isn't affected because they are Evergreens.

Answer 7

deciduous trees drop their leaves for fall like maple trees
coniferous are evergreens like christmas trees

Answer 8

deciduous ones loose their leaves in the colder months

Answer 9

Coniferous forests consist mostly of conifers, trees that grow needles instead of leaves, and cones instead of flowers. Conifers tend to be evergreen, that is, they bear needles all year long.

Answer 10

Decidous are trees that have the leaves fall off. And int he winter they're bare and skinny like maple treee.
Coniferous are usually trees that have cone bearing seeds and don't have their "needle like leaves" fall but stays all year long like Pine trees.