BY: Matt Bachand, Caty Hemming, and Travis McCall

Where is the tundra found? The tundra is

found at the top of the world around the North Pole.

Here is a map of where the tundra is

Physical Landscape

The Tundra’s vegetation includes shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses, and lichens.

The tree growth of the trees in the tundra is hindered by the cold temperature.

What do humans effect the Tundra? Humans mine there resources. Humans also melt the tundra's

permafrost.

Animal Adaptations

There are many animals that had to adapt to live in the Arctic Tundra. One of those animals is the Arctic Fox. The Arctic Fox’s adaptations are it’s white fur allows it to camouflage into the snow. Another adaptation is it’s thick fur allowing it to stay warm in the cold. The Arctic Fox also has very good hearing which allows it to hear prey. One last Adaptation is it’s long tail that can act as a scarf. Another animal that has to adapt is the Snowy Owl. The Snowy Owls many feathers allow it to stay warm. It’s white feathers also allow it to blend in to the snow. One last way it adapts is it’s great hearing.

Food Chains

There are many food chains in the Arctic Tundra. A food chain is made up of organisms and shows who eats who. Two food chains in the Arctic Tundra are listed below.

Caribou Moss Lemming Falcon Wolf Arctic Fox Grass Hares Arctic Fox Wolf Polar Bear

In these food chains the Grass and Caribou Moss are the producers. The Lemming and Hares are the Primary Consumers. Lastly, The Falcon and Arctic Fox are the secondary consumers.

Omnivores

A omnivore is a organism that eats plants and meat. Some examples of omnivores in the Arctic Tundra are the Arctic Fox, Polar Bear, and Arctic Ground Squirrel.

Pictures From Google Images

Carnivores

A carnivore is an organism that only eats meat. Some examples of carnivores in the Arctic Tundra are the Snowy Owl, Wolves, and the Wolverine.

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Pictures from Google Images.

Herbivores

A herbivore is an organism that only eats plants. Some herbivores are the Musk Oxen, Caribou, and Lemmings.

Pictures from Google Images

Decomposers, Biotic, And Abiotic features A decomposer is an organism that breaks down

dead material and returns nutrients back into the soil. One example of a decomposer is the mushroom. The mushrooms role is to break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil so new plants can grow. Abiotic means nonliving and biotic means that it is living. Biotic features in the biome play the role of eating vegetation and preventing the plants from over growing and eating animals to prevent them from overpopulating. Abiotic Features help the biome in a lot of ways. Water is a abiotic feature. It provides water for drinking. Another abiotic feature is soil. Soil helps by providing homes.

Botanist

Some plants can live in the tundra. They are small and low to the ground so no wind hits them. They are hairy by the stem that keeps them worm. All of the plants are alive during summer. They are in the snow a lot. They grow little red leafs to get heat. The tundra is the coldest of all the biomes.

Plants

This is some plant that can live in the Tundra

Shrubs, dwarf willows, birches, mosses, lichens, perennial, sedges, forbs, heaths, and shrubs.

Shrubs Dwarf Birch

Sites we used for information http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/tundra/

where.htm http://tundra88.tripod.com/id10.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra http://wiki.answers.com/Q/

What_do_humans_do_for_the_tundra Pictures from Google images The book TUNDRA by April Pulley Sayre