The document provides information about the Arctic tundra biome. It describes the extreme seasonal differences, with very warm summer temperatures and bitterly cold winter temperatures down to -70°C. Plant life is limited to small, hardy species that can survive the frozen soil. Animal life includes polar bears, arctic foxes, caribou, and birds. The tundra plays an important role in regulating global climate. Despite the harsh conditions, over 1700 types of plants and many animal species have adapted to survive in the Arctic tundra.

1. By Sarah

2. • Antarctica
• Islands of Greenland
• North eastern Scandinavia
• Bering Strait
• Northern Siberia
• Northern Iceland
• Northern Canada
• Northern Alaska
• South America
• Drake Passage
• South Shetland Islands
• Falkland Islands

3. Winter in the Arctic
Tundra, the conditions are
the exact opposite. There
In the Arctic Tundra there
are several weeks were the
are only two seasons, winter
sun doesn’t rise, so it is
and summer. Summer in the
pitch black. This causes the
Arctic Tundra, the sun shines
temperature of the Arctic
24 hours a day, 7 days a
Tundra to drop severely.
week. The sun however, only
The average temperature in
warms the tundra up to about
the winter of an Arctic
3˚C to 12˚C.
Tundra is around -28˚C, and
it can also get even colder
and go down to the -70˚C.

4. There are 2 types of polar The Polar Tundra is a part
climates: tundra climate and of the World Climate
ice cap climate. A tundra Regions which is marked
climate is characterised by with cold climate
having at least 1 month conditions. Regions with
whose average temperature Polar Climate cover over
is above 0˚C, while an ice 20% of the Earth. The
cap climate has no months sun shines 24 hours a day
above 0˚C. In tundra in summer and barely ever
climate trees cannot grow in shines at all in winter.
that climate. Polar Climate results in
treeless tundra, glaciers
or a permanent or semi-
permanent layer of ice.

5. The ground is permanently
frozen 25 to 100
centimetres down so no type
of plant or tree would be
able to in these extreme Summer
conditions. The tundra is one temperatures in
of the driest and coldest the Alpine Climate
biome so any of the animals ranges between -
there would have to have a 12˚C to 10˚C. The
pretty big fur coat. average annual
temperature are -
56˚C.

6. • Tundra means tree less plain
• There are only six weeks of summer in the tundra
• 3 types of tundras: tundra, polar tundra and arctic
tundra
• At least 25 to 90 centimetres of water is frozen
• In summer it stays light for 24 hours each day
• The only tree that grows on land in the Arctic
Tundra is the Dwarf Willow that grows only 100
millimetres every year

7. • Only experiences summer between May, June and
July
• Tundra plays an important role in keeping global
temperatures stable, by absorbing all the carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere
• Tundra is known as the second most deadliest place
in the world
• It is the coldest biome out of all 5
• It is considered not suitable for human habitation

8. • Some insects and reptiles live in the cold of
the tundra.
• The North American Arctic tundra gets
more rain than a desert.
• It is the harshest biome.
• 400 different types of flowers in the Arctic
Tundra.
• There is always light in summer
• It is pitch black in winter

9. • Bearberry
• Arctic Moss
• Caribou Moss
• Diamond Leaf
Willow • Cinquefoil
• Labrador Tea • Arctic Lichen
• Pasque Flower • Buttercups
• Tufted Saxifrage • Wild Crocus
• Arctic Lupine • Campanulas
• Arctic Poppy • Purple Saxifrage

10. In the Arctic Tundra
there are approximately
1700 types of plants
that live in this zone.
Bearberry Arctic Moss Labrador Tea
Here are
what some
look like:
Caribou Moss Pasque Flower Diamond Leaf
Willow

11. Here are
what some
look like:
Arctic Poppy Arctic Lupine
Cinquefoil
Buttercup
Campanulas Purple
Wild Crocus
Saxifrage Arctic Lichen

12. • Antarctic Fur Seal
• Arctic Fox
• Arctic Hare
• Arctic Lemming
• Arctic Loon
• Arctic Shrew
• Arctic Wolf • Harlequin Duck
• Killer Whale
• King Penguin
• Moose
• Musk Ox
• Polar Bear
• Snow Goose

13. Penguins are an
They spend about
aquatic, flightless bird
half their lives in
living almost exclusively
water and the other
in the southern
half is spent on land.
hemisphere especially in
Antarctica.
Most penguins eat
krill, fish, squid
and other forms of
sea life caught
while swimming
underwater.

14. Arctic foxes are a
small fox. Native to
arctic regions of the
northern hemisphere
and is common
throughout the arctic
tundra biome. There are 4 subspecies of
arctic foxes—
• Bering Islands Arctic Fox
• Pribilof Islands Arctic Fox
• Iceland Arctic Fox
• Greenland Arctic Fox

15. Caribou, also called In summer caribou
reindeer, are found in herds head north in one
northern regions of North of the world’s great
America, Europe, Asia and large-animal migrations.
Greenland. They may travel more
than 965 kilometres.
Caribou are the only
type of deer that both
male and female
caribou have antlers.

16. Arctic Foxes
Lemmings
Grasses
Sun

17. Arctic Hares
Snowy Owls
Lichen
Sun

18. Polar Bear Arctic Foxes
Pikas
Grasses
Sun

19. All my headings came from—
www.glowtxt.com
Photos from—
www.freedigitalimages.net
www.freeimages.co.uk
Information from—
www.wikipedia.com
www.animal.nationalgeographic.com
I used their information and put it into my own
information.