Tundra Habitat Animals And Plants
Below are some really neat facts about the arctic tundra.
Tundra habitat animals and plants. The tundra is a terrestrial biome that is characterized by extreme cold low biological diversity long winters brief growing seasons and limited drainage. Plants and animals live together in many different environments all around. The arctic tundra is also a windy place and winds can blow between 30 to 60 miles 48 to 97 kilometers per hour.
Home to animals including Arctic foxes Vulpes lagopus polar bears Ursus maritimus gray wolves Canis lupus caribou Rangifer tarandus snow geese Anser caerulescens and musk oxen Ovibos moschatus the Arctic tundra is changing in broad and somewhat unpredictable ways as global average temperatures rise. Alaskas tundra climates are characterized by a short growing. Besides the animals that inhabit the tundra year-round there are.
A complex community of plants and animals in a region and a climate is called a biome. Tundra Biome Animals List. Animals in the tundra are also adapted to extreme conditions and they take advantage of the temporary explosion of plant and insect life in the short growing season.
One ragbandana or cloth for each student using three different colors for the class Arctic Species cards included Background The arctic is home to plants and animals adapted to take advan-tage of its unique climate. However the further you go up a mountain the less diverse it gets. When the snow melts the tough grasses mosses and.
The dominant plant species of tundra habitats are sedges low and dwarf shrubs and graminoids interspersed with forbs in addition to mat and cushion-forming plants and scattered bryophytes nonvascular plants. Tundra 2 alpine high altitude tundra and 3 the maritime tundra present on Alaskas western and southwestern coast. Many animals found on the tundra are migratory species moving in to eat the plants in the summer but leaving again before the hard winter.
Most tundra is around the Arctic Circle but there is also tundra near Antarctica and on high mountains. The tundra is a cold habitat. Each card has a colored strip.