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=** The Tundra **=

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Climate
In the Tundra it is very cold year round. The precipitation received yearly is 6-10 inches including melted snow. If you are planning to move here you better pack some warm clothes and get used to lots of snow and cold weather.

Weather- The wind in the Tundra can reach up to 86 mph and 7-9 months until summer Season -The wimterr begins in september

Tundra Landscape

The tundra is a very cold and damp place. This is where few trees are able to grow. The plants that can grow here consist of many small plants and very few tree types such as the birch and willow trees. The Plants that live here are listed below:
 * Arctic Moss
 * Arctic Willow
 * Bear berry
 * Caribou Moss
 * Diamond Leaf Willow [[image:tufted_saxifrage.jpg align="right"]]
 * Labrador Tea
 * Pasquale Flower
 * Tufted Saxifrage
 * Arctic Cotton
 * Lichens
 * Scamman's Spring Beauty

The plants don't die but go into a type of hibernation were they store nutrients until the spring and summer months to be able to grow leafs and flowers. The plants that grow here are mostly short plants that grow close to the ground so that the feirce winds don't rip them loose from the soil. Tufted saxifrage

= Food Web =



10 Animals And How They Adapt
The Tundra is very cold and damp so the animals need to have a type of blubber or extra fat and thick fur to survive the cold and damp winter.


 * Arctic Fox
 * Caribou[[image:polar_bear.jpg align="right"]]
 * Ermine
 * Grizzly Bear
 * Harlequin Duck
 * Musk OX
 * Polar Bear
 * Snowy Owl
 * Hares
 * Squirrel

Polar Bear

Most of he animals have long fur. They burrow and hibernate during the winter to keep warm. All of these animals are consumers that eat mostly a lot of plants and also other animals.

How People Impact The Environment
The greenhouse effect is a major problem in the Tundra. It is caused by pollution of the air that here causes acid rain and global warming. If the Earth gets to hot then most the animals that live in the Arctic and Tundra areas will die and become extinct. The humans also impact this particular environment by hunting certain animals for clothing to the point to were they are basically extinct. The humans are a major problem here because they cause so many problems for this frozen biome that these animals are going extinct.



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