Alaskan Tundra Animals And Plants

Other plants such as Kamchatka rhododendron achieve extra protection by growing in dense mats or cushions.

Alaskan tundra animals and plants. Often you can smell this plant before you see its blossom a cluster of 10-40 white flowers toward the tip of the stem. Dwarf Dogwood Labrador Tea Caribou Moss Diamond Leaf Willow Bearberry Lichens Arctic Mossand Bearberry. They have thick blubber that keeps them warm during the winter as well as a thick coat that reinforces that warmth.

They often have a strong sense of smell to help them find food underneath the snow. This is why the polar bears are very fit for this crazy climate of Barrow Alaska. Brenda Duty 2020 Robin Dublin Jonne Slemons 1995 1999 2001 Editors.

Many Arctic animals live in the. The animals and plants in the tundra depend on each other to survive. This conserves nutrients and helps protect the plant from cold windscour and desiccation.

Although the animals are marine species students will still gain the concept of a food chain. These amazing polar bears live in this Tundra biome. Sort animals and plants into the ocean or tundra ecosystem they live in.

Some tundra plants such as Labrador tea and Arctic dryad retain old leaves rather than dropping them. Robin Dublin Karen L. Heres a list of the most common.

This may be a teacher-directed or independent activity depending on grade level. And draw pictures of life in the ocean and the tundra and state how they are the same and different. Lemmings musk oxen arctic foxes and wolves.