Polar Tundra Animals And Plants
Arctic animals have thick coats to keep them warm.
Polar tundra animals and plants. Lemmings musk oxen arctic foxes and wolves. Other animals that live in the tundra include polar bears arctic foxes caribous north american reindeers penguins southern arctic areas grey wolves snow geese and musk oxen. Many plants are in their dwarf smaller forms compared to their growth forms in warmer climates.
Although the animals are marine species students will still gain the concept of a food chain. Without these plants food sources are killed for some animals and they will start to die off. Few other plants can survive.
Some of the animals that live in the polar biome include polar bears penguins and arctic foxes on land and seals whales and zooplankton in the ocean 3. Since most of the polar biome is located above the arctic circle where there is no land plant life is nearly non existent in this biome. A wide variety of plant species mainly sedges grasses and flowering plants form the vegetation of the tundra.
Animals that live in the polar biome include polar bears beluga whales killer whales and harbor seals 4. A very simple plant without stems or leaves that grows in or near water. They have thick blubber that keeps them warm during the winter as well as a thick coat that reinforces that warmth.
Animals - Polar bears live in the Arctic and penguins live in the Antarctic. Bears will use a variety of tactics while hunting seals and. TUNDRA ANIMALS AND PLANTS.
Cold environments both polar and tundra. In the south is the subarctic formed by the northern subzones of the circumpolar boreal forestTo the north is the Arctic proper where the vegetation is generally referred to as tundra from the Finnish word for an open rolling plain. Some animals stay all year round others migrate to warmer places for the winter.