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​​​  By: Katrina, Bethany, Justin G, and Stephanie

· ** Tundra is a very cold and dry biome. ** · ** The summer is very short but the sun never goes down. ** · ** The winter is very long and the sun never comes up. ** · ** The plants and animals need to adapt a lot to survive in those cold temperatures ** · ** The plants that grow there don’t need room to grow because of the permafrost ** · ** There are 400 types of flowers that grow there ** · ** The most common plants that are found there are ** o ** Mosses ,Grasses ,Shrubs ,Dwarf forms of trees and, Willow trees ** · ** Permafrost is the part that is under the first layer of soil and that part never defrosts it is always frozen ** · ** All the tundra is in the northern part of the world ** · ** Pretty much the only kind of precipitation is snow ** · ** The most common animals are ** o ** Polar bears ,Caribou ,Musk ox ,Wolves ,Rabbits ,Birds ,Penguins ,Falcons and ,Ravines, ** · ** There are two kinds of tundra ** o ** Alpine Tundra and Arctic Tundra ** = **__Threats__** = = __Solutions__ = **Limit road construction, mining, and the building of pipes, Establish protected areas and park reserves to restrict human influences, Switch to alternative energy uses to minimize human-made global warming that is how you can limit the threats in tundra area. **
 * Oil and gas development, global warming, ** ** Hunting of animals such as the musk ox, caribou, arctic foxes, and polar bears, Mining and drilling have destroyed tundra areas ,Ultraviolet rays from ozone depletion in the south and north poles , ** ** Pollution contaminates food for animals , and ** ** Oil spills kill wild life is what is causing threats in the tundra area. **

The tundra is a very interesting biome. In the tundra it is very cold and dry year round. They get very little rain there only 25cm a year. The tundra areas are all in the northern part of the earth. There is no sun in the winter all the light they get is the northern lights. In the summer the sun never goes down. The winter is 6 to 9 months long. There is permafrost meaning the only layer of soil that is not frozen is the top. Because of permafrost only short root plants can survive. The average temperature is -12 degrees Celsius. Tundra is also called the ice dessert and frozen prairie.



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