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Tundra

Tundra. Created by Deion Love. Tundras Around the World. All About a Tundra. An alpine tundra’s elevation ranges from 10,000-15000 feet and an arctic's ranges from 300-11079 feet The tundra is a chilly, treeless, and snow-covered piece of land

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Tundra

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  1. Tundra Created by Deion Love

  2. Tundras Around the World

  3. All About a Tundra • An alpine tundra’s elevation ranges from 10,000-15000 feet and an arctic's ranges from 300-11079 feet • The tundra is a chilly, treeless, and snow-covered piece of land • Tundras experience very harsh winters and cool summers • Temperatures in the winter range from -18 and -50 degrees Fahrenheit; summer temperatures range from 35 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit • 5-15 inches of precipitation fall in the tundras annually • Harsh cold winds leave the high plateaus exposed to barren ground • The winters are dark and cold; in the summers, the snow and top layer of permafrost melts to create lakes marshes and bogs that are home to many insects

  4. A “Soiled” Place Permafrost is frozen soil, sediment or rock Talik is unfrozen soil or rock that lies in permafrost region

  5. Life on the Tundra Animals: Arctic fox, caribou, ermine, grizzly bears, harlequin ducks, musk ox, polar bears, and snowy owls

  6. Life on the Tundra (cont.) Plants: arctic moss, arctic willow, bearberry, caribou moss, diamond-leaf willow, Labrador tea, pasque flower, and tufted saxifrage

  7. Indigenous People to the Tundra Inuit • Sometimes called “Eskimo”, meaning “eater of raw meat” • They were fishers and hunters • Due to the Little Ice Age, the Inuit lives changed because of cooler temps • European whalers in the 19th century taught the Inuit religion but infected them with diseases, decreasing their population

  8. Anthropogenic Problems a Tundra Faces Problem: Global warming is beginning to cause the permafrost to melt, which could drastically affect the ecosystem and its organisms Solution: Humans are making efforts to use more environmental-friendly products and alternative energy Problem: Lichen, a fungus that feeds many organisms in the tundra, is becoming contaminated from smog clouds created by air pollution Solution: Humans are trying to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the atmosphere

  9. Graph 1 This graph represents the average monthly temperatures and precipitation for a tundra. The temperatures range from -15 degrees Celsius to 5 degrees Celsius

  10. Graph 2 This graph represents the population size of tundra swan from 1955-1999. The population increased over time.

  11. Graph 3 This graph represents the masses of different vegetation during the years of 1995, 2000, 2007 on an arctic tundra (Ellesmere Island)

  12. Works Cited "Bienvenue | Welcome." Government of Canada, Environment Canada. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. "The Center for Ecopsychology." The Center for Ecopsychology. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. "Earth Floor: Biomes." Earth Floor: Biomes. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. "Tundra." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. "Tundra Threats." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013.

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