Alaskan Tundra Animals And Plants
Brenda Duty 2020 Robin Dublin Jonne Slemons 1995 1999 2001 Editors.
Alaskan tundra animals and plants. These amazing polar bears live in this Tundra biome. Various hardy plants and wild flowers spring up during the short growing season on the semiarid tundra plains. Create food chains for the ocean and the tundra.
Although the animals are marine species students will still gain the concept of a food chain. Alaska is home to many mammals besides the iconic polar bear. They have thick blubber that keeps them warm during the winter as well as a thick coat that reinforces that warmth.
From wolves to otters and Black Spruces to Yellow Marsh Marigolds Alaska is home to stunning and fascinating wild fauna and flora. Lemmings musk oxen arctic foxes and wolves. Animals in the tundra are also adapted to extreme conditions and they take advantage of the temporary explosion of plant and insect life in the short growing season.
TUNDRA ANIMALS AND PLANTS. This rich diet enables them to rear their young in an otherwise bleak environment. Grab a leaf and look closely on the underside and you will find it covered with thick orange hairs.
Eaten by migrating animals like birds Arctic Hare Arctic Fox Abiotic Plants Coat grows longer and thicker for winter multi-layer coat Biotic Form pesticide to keep insects away Grows 15 cm tall Endangered Organisms Of the Tundra Adaptations for Biotic Factors Wide. Often you can smell this plant before you see its blossom a cluster of 10-40 white flowers toward the tip of the stem. The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food.
One of the dominant plants that covers the tundra is Labrador tea. Some tundra plants such as Labrador tea and Arctic dryad retain old leaves rather than dropping them. Due to the large number of small rodents and mammals predators such as arctic foxes and snowy owls also inhabit the tundra.