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Tundra Soil

Tundra Soil. Soils found at high elevation or high latitude. Tundra comes from the Finnish tunturia , which means barren or treeless land. However, the tundra is not really barren. A diversity of low growing plants – including a few dwarf trees – have adapted to the tundra’s

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Tundra Soil

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  1. Tundra Soil Soils found at high elevation or high latitude

  2. Tundra comes from the Finnish tunturia, which means barren or treeless land. However, the tundra is not really barren. A diversity of low growing plants – including a few dwarf trees – have adapted to the tundra’s frozen soil, harsh winters, and short growing season.

  3. Gelisol Frozen

  4. Tundra: Teeming with Life Lichens => <= Caribou

  5. How does freezing and thawing create patterns in theground?

  6. What is a pingo?

  7. Building Challenges Freeze/Thaw Cracking

  8. Sinking Houses

  9. Vocabulary • Gelisols - soils with permafrost • ice lens – moisture collects in the soil, and when it freezes, soils get wedged apart • Pingos- an underground pond of water freezes, expands, and pushes the soil upward. • Patterned ground - Water fills cracks in the soil, freezes, and shapes the soil into interesting patterns

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