BY AUBURN, AKIRA, ELIZABETH, AND MATT

The Arctic Tundra

THE FLORA (PLANTS, VEGETATION, ETC.)

The Tundra’s plants to not have colorful leaves. They are mainly aquatic. They do not like the cold wind chills, in fact, they grow under the wind-chill

Arctic Moss The Arctic Willow Labrador Tea

Bearberry

About the Flora

FAUNA (ANIMALS)

The Arctic Tundra’s animals need a thick coat of feathers or fur to stay warm

Caribou The Arctic Fox The Ermine (above)

The Harlequin Duck Grizzly Bear Polar Bear (Right)

The Big Animals in the Tundra

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

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CLIMATE/WEATHER

The climatographs

DA FOOD WEB

The Arctic Food Web

MAJOR LANDFORMS

There are a lot of plains known as a tundra. Also there are many hills, glaciers and small mountains.

The Tundra’s main landform, The landform created by the freezing and thawing of ice is called a “pingo”

a Tundra

Major Landforms

NATURAL RESOURCES

Natural Resources

Natural Gas Lake Crude Oil

Timber

PLACES OF INTEREST

Places of Interest

Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and N. Asia are all parts of the tundra’s biome

VOCABULARY WORDS

Permafrost- the permanently frozen ground between the soil surface in the arctic tundra.

Permafrost