Post on 24-Feb-2016
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The Tundra
By: Trevre Routhier
Location
• The areas labeled in orange are tundra biomes
Climate
• Harsh winters• Low temperatures• Little precipitation• Short summers
Vegetation
• There are few plant species in a tundra. Like shrubbery and other things like so:
• Arctic moss
• Cotton Grass
Soil
• The soil is not fertile and it is classified as permafrost which is made of frozen ground and dead plants
Animals
• Surprisingly even in the frigid temperatures there happens to be animals living in a tundra.
• Arctic Wolf
• Arctic fox
Animals (cont.)
• Here are some birds that live in the Tundra
• Ptarmigan
• Snowy Owl IT’S HEDWIG
YES OWLS AR BIRDS!!!!!!!
Animals (yes more)
• Now lastly but not least we have some grass grazers
• Caribou I am not a REINDEER!
• Reindeer
Geography • A tundra is flat, mountainous, and treeless
THOSE ARE SHRUBS
Atmosphere
• With global warming heating up the Tundra new predatory animals are invading the tundra.
• This guy as cute as heseems, is contending with the arctic wolf forfood which is bad for both species.• Also global warming is melting away the permafrost and
because of the dead plants, guess what that releases? CO2