2. Characteristics of Tundra
TEMPERATURE: -20 to -30˚F(winter)
It never gets any warmer than 45 or 50° F.
UNIQUENESS: It is the coldest of all 5 world biomes.
Tundras are found just below the ice caps of the
Arctic, across North America, in Europe, Siberia and
Asia. Most of Alaska and almost half of Canada are
located in the Tundra biome. Tundras cover
about one-fifth of Earth's land surface.
4. • NAME: BEARBERRY
• NAME: DIAMOND- • NICHE: autotroph
LEAF WILLOW • HABITAT: Arctic and sub-
• NICHE: autotroph Arctic climates, and have
a circumpolar distribution
• HABITAT: tundra and
in northernNorth
rocky moorland
America, Asia and Europe
• ORGANISM: flora , one with a small highly
disjunctive population
in Central America.
• ORGANISM: flora
5. NAME: LABRADOR TEA NAME: TUFTED
NICHE: autotroph SAXIFRAGE
HABITAT: primarily NICHE: autotroph
wetland HABITAT: the rocky
ORGANISM: flora slopes and crevices of
the tundra.
ORGANISM: flora
8. • NAME: POLAR BEAR
• NICHE: consumer
• NAME: ARCTIC FOX
• FOOD: Seals, crabs etc.
• NICHE: consumer
• HABITAT: the annual sea
ice covering the waters • FOOD: owls, eggs etc.
over the continental • HABITAT: the most
shelf and the Arctic frigid extremes on the
inter-island planet.
archipelagos. • ORGANISM: fauna
• ORGANISM: fauna
10. • NAME: MUSK OX • NAME: CARIBOU
• NICHE: consumer • NICHE: consumer
• FOOD: grasses, plants • FOOD: reindeer moss
• HABITAT: wet • HABITAT: both
areas, such as river tundra and
valleys, moving to taiga (boreal forest)
higher elevations in • ORGANISM: fauna
the winter to avoid
deep snow
• ORGANISM: fauna
11. NAME: SNOWY
OWL
NICHE: consumer
FOOD: rodents
HABITAT: the
northern
circumpolar region,
where it makes its
summer home
north of latitude 60
degrees north.
ORGANISM: fauna
