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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Tundra

The Tundra has extremely low temperatures; The average winter temperature is -34° C (-30° F), but the average summer temperature is 3-12° C (37-54° F). It has little precipitation, and poor nutrients in the soil.


  • Plants are low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, grasses, 400 varieties of flowers,tussock grasses, dwarf trees, small-leafed shrubs, and heaths


  • Herbivorous mammals: lemmings, voles, caribou, arctic hares, squirrels, pikas, marmots, mountain goats, sheep, elk 

  • Carnivorous mammals: arctic foxes, wolves, and polar bears



  • Canada, Russia and Scandinavia is where you will find the tundra

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