Alaskan Tundra Animals And Plants
Robin Dublin Karen L.
Alaskan tundra animals and plants. 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. Some tundra plants such as Labrador tea and Arctic dryad retain old leaves rather than dropping them. The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food.
TUNDRA ANIMALS AND PLANTS. Dwarf Dogwood Labrador Tea Caribou Moss Diamond Leaf Willow Bearberry Lichens Arctic Mossand Bearberry. The bearberry is a low growing plant with leathery leaves and silky hairs that provide protection from the cold and wind of Barrow Alaska.
The animals and plants in the tundra depend on each other to survive. Tundra wildlife includes small mammalssuch as Norway lemmings Lemmus lemmus arctic hares Lepis arcticus and arctic ground squirrels Spermophilus parryii and large mammals such as caribou. These amazing polar bears live in this Tundra biome.
Arctic animals have thick coats to keep them warm. Due to the large number of small rodents and mammals predators such as arctic foxes and snowy owls also inhabit the tundra. Many Arctic animals live in the.
Create food chains for the ocean and the tundra. Those living in the icy water have blubber a thick layer of fat under the skin. Identify the conditions needed in the ocean and on the tundra for animals and plants to live.
This helps it stay warm during the cold days of the tundra. Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Some animals stay all year round others migrate to warmer places for the winter.