BIOME: TUNDRA

Period 5 Tashim Lorenzo

Coiln McComas

Where tundra are found

Found in the northern hemisphere

A Climate Diagram

Different maps Short growing season Low temperature below zero degree Celsius

Major Characteristic Has very low temperatures Very little precipitation Treeless Very little nutrients Short growing season

Major plant life Arctic Low shrubs ,sedges ,

reindeer mosses ,liverworts , and grass

400 different flowers crustose and foliose

lichen No trees

Alpine Tussock grassesDwarf trees Small leaf shrubs Heaths

Examples of animals ( Arctic) Mammals: lemmings, voles, caribou,

arctic hares and squirrels, arctic foxes, wolves, and polar bears

Birds :ravens, snow buntings, falcons, loons, sandpipers, terns, snow birds, and various species of gulls

Fish: cod, flatfish, salmon, and trout Insects: mosquitoes, flies, moths,

grasshoppers, black flies and arctic bumble bees

Example of animals (Alpine)

Mammals: picas, marmots, mountain goats, sheep, elk

Birds: grouse like birds Insects: springtails, beetles,

grasshoppers, butterflies

Other interesting Facts Coldest of all biome Its treeless Average temperature -34 in winter Arctic growing season 50-60 days Alpine 180 day growing season

Reference Greenwich Public Schools: Tundra Biome(

http://www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm?p=3631)

Knowledge Project(http://www.nature.com/scitable/content/tundra-biome-climate-diagram-13308130)

The Tundra Biome(http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/tundra.php)

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