Clearly Identify where your animal is well adapted to live:
Harriet Mountains
South of Orocarina
Beleriand
Oroc Mountains
Islands near North Vailma Ocean
Describe baseline climate and physical settings:
Planet Arda is in an ice age in which the baseline temperature is at 13 degrees celsius. Later on the ice sheets expanded to cover most of the northern continents.
Explain the environmental changes over the 10 million year period:
Planet Arda began in an Ice Age in which the surface temperature began at 13 degrees celsius. Later the ice sheets from the polar regions expanded further into the northern continents. From there the sea level drops 50ft and the global temperature decreases by 2 degrees moving from 13 degrees celsius to 11 degrees celsius. Volcanic activity causes global warming which led to the creation of volcanic islands and a rise in sea level. As global warming continues the ice sheets completely melt and the global temperature rises to 14 degrees celsius and the sea levels rise by 100 feet. In the later years the global temperature rises to 16 degrees celsius and due to the collision two continents the ocean currents have dramatically changed. A few years later the global surface temperature has risen to 20 degrees celsius and the sea levels have risen up 200 feet. Over a few years the global surface temperature stays the same but the sea surface temperature increases by 5 degrees celsius. Present day the global surface temperature stays the same and two other continents collide (with the sky) each other, not causing much change, and the volcanic activity returns to normal.
Describe changes in biomes and is linked to changes in climate:
The biomes of the planet Arda started off as colder environments that were covered in snow. Later on as the temperatures increase a new diversity of biomes appeared such as grasslands and other biomes that thrive in warmer temperatures. The interior of the continents still suffered from lack of water and thus were still a desert biome. Once the continents of Darkland and Kalorme collided they created a large grassland area was created along with smaller biomes of forests and such. Due to the warmer temperatures the colder biomes such as the Tundra were affected greatly. When the continents of Orocarina and Kalorme collided they created a small area near the mountains into a Taiga.
Includes changes in inter species interactions (predator, prey, intraspecies and interspecies competition):
The predator prey relationships would be changed because due to the collision of the continents the prey resource might have been moved from a climate in which they can thrive in, into a climate where they can easily die out, this then creates a situation in which the predator has to find a new source of prey or a situation in which the predator population dies out, which would create an overpopulation of the prey who will then cause natural resources to run low. The species will have to battle for the best resources and some may die out or be killed, causing the population to diminish. The species will have to interact with each other to form new predator-prey relationships and the species itself will battle to obtain mates and resources.