TUNDRA"the land of the midnight sun"

Characteristics of TundraTEMPERATURE: -20 to -30˚F(winter)It never gets any warmer than 45 or 50° F.

UNIQUENESS: It is the coldest of all 5 world biomes.

Tundras are found just below the ice caps of the Arctic, across North America, in Europe, Siberia and Asia. Most of Alaska and almost half of Canada are located in the Tundra biome. Tundras cover about one-fifth of Earth's land surface.

 

FLORA

DIAMOND-LEAF WILLOW

BEARBERRY

• NAME: DIAMOND-LEAF WILLOW

• NICHE: autotroph• HABITAT: tundra and

rocky moorland• ORGANISM: flora

• NAME: BEARBERRY• NICHE: autotroph• HABITAT: Arctic and sub-

Arctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northernNorth America, Asia and Europe, one with a small highly disjunctive population in Central America.

• ORGANISM: flora

NAME: LABRADOR TEANICHE: autotrophHABITAT: primarily wetlandORGANISM: flora

NAME: TUFTED SAXIFRAGENICHE: autotrophHABITAT: the rocky slopes and crevices of the tundra.ORGANISM: flora

NAME: PASQUE FLOWERNICHE: autotrophHABITAT: meadows and prairies of North America, Europe, and Asia.ORGANISM: flora

FAUNA

POLAR BEARARCTIC FOX

• NAME: POLAR BEAR• NICHE: consumer• FOOD: Seals, crabs etc.• HABITAT: the annual sea

ice covering the waters over the continental shelf and the Arctic inter-island archipelagos.

• ORGANISM: fauna

• NAME: ARCTIC FOX• NICHE: consumer• FOOD: owls, eggs etc.• HABITAT: the most

frigid extremes on the planet.

• ORGANISM: fauna

MUSK OX CARIBOU

• NAME: MUSK OX• NICHE: consumer• FOOD: grasses, plants• HABITAT: wet areas,

such as river valleys, moving to higher elevations in the winter to avoid deep snow

• ORGANISM: fauna

• NAME: CARIBOU• NICHE: consumer• FOOD: reindeer moss• HABITAT: both

tundra and taiga (boreal forest)

• ORGANISM: fauna

NAME: SNOWY OWLNICHE: consumerFOOD: rodentsHABITAT: the northern circumpolar region, where it makes its summer home north of latitude 60 degrees north. ORGANISM: fauna

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