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Tundra The Tundra is the youngest biome and is ten thousand years old. There are two types of Tundras the Arctic Tundra and the Alpine Tundra. The Tundras cover twenty percent of Earth. Almost all of the Tundras are in the Northern Hemisphere and smaller Tundras are in the Southern Hemisphere. It is vast, bare and sometimes rocky and treeless. The climate in the Tundra is very cold and the ground is always covered in ice and snow. The average temperature is negative seventy degrees Fahrenheit.

10 Plants You Can Find In The Tundra


 * 1) Heaths- Have evergreen leaves
 * 2) Lichen- live on rocks associated with fungi and algae
 * 3) Arctic Moss- Is an aquatic plant found in lakes
 * 4) Shrubs- Short because very cold weather and wind
 * 5) Rosette
 * 6) Tussock Grasses
 * 7) Dwarf Trees
 * 8) Sedges- Cold Weather makes it shrink down in a leaf or die
 * 9) Willows- They grow in some parts of the Tundra but it is like a low carpet(3in)
 * 10) Birches

Picture of Arctic Moss

10 Animals You Can Find In The Tundra Picture of Harlequin Duck
 * 1) Elk
 * 2) Arctic Fox- Carnivore, scavenger- live in small burrows
 * 3) Moose
 * 4) Migrating Birds
 * 5) Wolf- Carnivore
 * 6) Buffalo
 * 7) Musk Ox- 24 inch hair and it is woolly
 * 8) Grizzly Bear- Thick coat of hair
 * 9) Harlequin Duck- Feathers
 * 10) Polar Bear-Carnivore, Two layers of fur, Can catch prey easy with its sharp claws, Think layer of blubber

This is a food wed using the animals in the Tundra



Human Impact The way that human is that humans are hunting and that is making the animals endangered they are being killed for there meat, hair and coats of fur.

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