Polar Tundra Animals And Plants
Tundra Animals and plants.
Polar tundra animals and plants. A wide variety of plant species mainly sedges grasses and flowering plants form the vegetation of the tundra. In the south is the subarctic formed by the northern subzones of the circumpolar boreal forestTo the north is the Arctic proper where the vegetation is generally referred to as tundra from the Finnish word for an open rolling plain. This may be a teacher-directed or independent activity depending on grade level.
The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food. Lemmings musk oxen arctic foxes and wolves. Approximately 1700 species of plants live on the Arctic tundra including flowering plants dwarf shrubs herbs grasses mosses and lichens.
Pines are an autotrophic plant and are producers for animals in food chains. Students create an arctic food web to understand the feeding connections and social relationships between tundra plants and animals. Plants and animals have adapted to stay warm and preserve water.
Few other plants can survive. The tundra plants consist mostly of mosses grasses lichens sedges and shrubs. Many animals live on the tundra including caribou.
Only a thin layer of soil called the active layer thaws and refreezes each year. Their are many types of animals that survive in the cold tundra like a the polar. Since most of the polar biome is located above the arctic circle where there is no land plant life is nearly non existent in this biome.
Other animals that live in the tundra include polar bears arctic foxes caribous north american reindeers penguins southern arctic areas grey wolves snow geese and musk oxen. This results in an unbalance in the food chain killing off more animals in the environment. Bears will use a variety of tactics while hunting seals and.