Polar Tundra Animals And Plants

Humans create many oil rigs in the tundra for the purpose of drilling oil for fuel.

Polar tundra animals and plants. This is why the polar bears are very fit for this crazy climate of Barrow Alaska. The Tundras Animals and Plants. A wide variety of plant species mainly sedges grasses and flowering plants form the vegetation of the tundra.

Arctic animals have thick coats to keep them warm. Animals of the Arctic Tundra 1. Whales seals and snowy owls are also found in polar regions.

These amazing polar bears live in this Tundra biome. This results in an unbalance in the food chain killing off more animals in the environment. Tundra wildlife includes small mammalssuch as Norway lemmings Lemmus lemmus arctic hares Lepis arcticus and arctic ground squirrels Spermophilus parryii and large mammals such as caribou Rangifer tarandus.

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. The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food. 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.

The windswept treeless plains of the Arctic tundra sometimes look barren but they are inhabited by a multitude of plants and animals. Cold environments both polar and tundra. Penguins also exist in the polar biome but they only exist in.

Bears Polar Bears diets consist mainly of seals. Plankton are tiny plants animals and bacteria that float on the surface. Many plants are in their dwarf smaller forms compared to their growth forms in warmer climates.