17 hours
it is not as sunny in a deciduous forest but it gets about 17 of sun a day so you could say it is but just know its not as nearly as sunny as a tropical rainforest or a temperate deciduous forest.
Because less sun is let in!
The coniferous forest receives a lot of sunlight each year. Combined with the high rainfall amounts, plants find it the perfect climate in which to thrive. In some areas, the forest can have as much as 18 hours of sunlight per day.
The Climate in the Deciduous Forest is greatly affected by the tilt of the earth's axis. As our planet revolves around the sun, its axis stays tilted, causing the four seasons of the deciduous forest. During the spring and summer months, the deciduous forest ranges in temperatures from cool to warm. In the fall and winter, the forests will get very cold. These changes of the season not only affect the temperature in the forest but also alter the form of precipitation it receives. Actually the tilt of the Earth affects ALL seasonal climate changes on the Earth, not just the forests.
very little
No, a deciduous forest is a biome characterized by trees that lose their leaves in fall. Deciduous forests can be found in temperate regions with four distinct seasons, experiencing cold winters but not necessarily extremely dry conditions. The length of daylight, not just temperature, plays a role in the variation in sunlight during winter in these forests.
Actually, dogwoods live in temperate deciduous forests. Dogwoods like lots of sun, so they might be able to live in some forest. Temperate rainforest are usually way far north and the dogwood would not survive. The dog is not a conifer so it loses it leaves in the fall. The dogwood blooms in the spring.
The amount of light in a temperate forest is fairly minimal in the densest parts of the forest. Often not much grows under the trees due to the lack of light, except in glades and meadows where the sun is able to reach the ground.
Not much, the distance between sun and earth does vary anyway.
It rains about 100 inches every year in the rain forest. It doesn't usually rain for the entirety of a day but there will usually be a part of every day where it rains.
Too much rain Not as much sun Different altitudes
Sun Pass State Forest was created in 1943.