Tundra Habitat Animals And Plants
The word tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturi meaning treeless plain.
Tundra habitat animals and plants. Animals in the tundra are also adapted to extreme conditions and they take advantage of the temporary explosion of plant and insect life in the short growing season. Some remain all year though like the polar bear the musk ox and the snowy owl. Caribou moss reindeer moss is seen growing abundantly in the alpine tundra.
The arctic tundra is also a windy place and winds can blow between 30 to 60 miles 48 to 97 kilometers per hour. The arctic tundra has different plants. The plants growing in the alpine climate and at a higher elevation above the tree line are called alpine plants.
One ragbandana or cloth for each student using three different colors for the class Arctic Species cards included Background The arctic is home to plants and animals adapted to take advan-tage of its unique climate. Habitats for Plants and Animals. The dominant plant species of tundra habitats are sedges low and dwarf shrubs and graminoids interspersed with forbs in addition to mat and cushion-forming plants and scattered bryophytes nonvascular plants.
The prominent plants include varieties of mosses lichens sedges perennial grasses and cushion plants. Alaskas tundra climates are characterized by a short growing. A complex community of plants and animals in a region and a climate is called a biome.
When the snow melts the tough grasses mosses and. Arctic tundra animals and plants. The tundra is home to the arctic fox wolverines polar bears northern bog lemmings muskox arctic terns muskoxen and snow buntings.
Snow covers the ground for nine months of the year when plants cannot grow. The air becomes thinner meaning animals and plants cannot survive at the top. Plants and animals in tundras.