TUNDRA

ANIMALS

FOXES

• Red foxes are solitary hunters who feed on rodents, rabbits, birds, and other small game, but their diet can be as flexible as their home.
• Foxes will eat fruit and vegetables, fish, frogs, and even worms. If living among humans, foxes will opportunistically dine on garbage and pet
• The adaptations all white so that they blend into the frozen landscape

VOLES

• Vole belongs to the rodent species. There are over 155 different species of voles.
• Voles can live in many different habitats like meadows, forests, savannas, prairies, dense grasslands, swamps, arctic areas.
• There adaptations are voles live underground to stay safe from owls, hawks, and foxes that feed off of them. Voles eat grasses, herbaceous, plants, bulbs, seeds, flowers, leaves, roots of shrubs and small trees.

PTARMIGAN

• Ptarmigan are small chicken-like birds which live year round in the arctic lands there are found most commonly on tundra hiding in rocks or bushes.
• They have two different colors of plumage depending upon the season. They are brownish with dark stripes in summer. Or completely white in winter. This is there adaptions
• The adaptation is that they're feathers are white to blend in with the tundra landscape

PLANTS

TUFFED SAXI FRAGE

• 2 to 10 flowers blossom from the top of each stem
• Has about 7-10 straight flower stems which can reach 3-15 cm high
• Tufted saxifrage grows on rocky slopes and in crevices of the tundra
• They can be found in Alaska and all the way to Cascade and Olympic Mountains and northwestern Oregon

PASQUE FLOWERS

• Pasque flowers has about 7-10 stems that rise about 6-8 in. off the ground
• Each flower has 5-8 petals
• The color is anywhere between dark violet to white
• The plant only grows on southward facing slopes and is common throughout northwestern U.S. up to northern Alaska

LABRADOR TEA

• The Labrador tea plant grows to be 4 to 5 feet.
• It will grow up straight in the southern latitudes of the tundra.
• It has woolly branches with narrow 1 to 2 inch leaves which are smooth on the upper side, with rusty hairs underneath.

Tundra Threats

• There are many natural resources located in or under the tundra, people drill for these resources which can cause threats to the wildlife.
• The overpopulation of Canadian geese pose a threat to the balance of the tundra.
• Global Warming plays a major role in the tundra threats.

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ENDANGERED SPECIES

• Two species of Arctic Fox
• Caribou
• Musk Ox
• Polar Bear

TUNDRA FACTS

• -30°F—-70°F
• Latitude and longitude

FUN FACTS

• The Tundra Biome is the 2nd most deadliest environment.
• The Tundra Biome has only 6 weeks of summer.
• There is little to no precipitation.
• The soil has very little nutrients for plants.
• It the least inhabited by humans biome.

FUN FACTS 2

• The Tundra Biome is the biome most affected by human pollution.
• The sun is almost 24 hours up a summer day, meaning that there are mostly no nights.
• During the winter, this biome has few hours of sunlight.
• The Tundra Biome is covered permanently by a frozen layer of soil.
• The Tundra Biome is the most vital role in keeping global temperature at a stable place.

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