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The tundra is located around the North Pole in the Arctic Circle. For most of the year it is covered in snow. In the short summers, the snow and ice melt to leave pools of meltwater. The layer of earth beneath the tundra is frozen all year long.
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chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webunits/biomes/tundra.html
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The tundra is not a cold and useless wasteland. It is a very fragile environment and the plants and animals that have made their home on the tundra biome have made some incredible adaptations to the long, cold winters and the short but abundant summers.
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www.blueplanetbiomes.org/tundra.htm
www.blueplanetbiomes.org/tundra.htm
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In the tundra, conditions are cold, with an annual average temperature less than 5° C, and precipitation (mostly in the form of snow) less than 100 mm per year (see figure at right). The summer is brief, ... It should be noted that a similar habitat, alpine tundra, exists in mountains of the alpine biome.
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www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/tundra.htm
www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/tundra.htm
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WorldBiomes.com - Explore Tundra Biomes. ... Tundra, the "ice desert", "frozen prairie", the cold plains of the Far North get their name from the Finnish word "tunturia", which means treeless land. The tundra biome is the coldest of all terrestrial eco-systems, and also the most chaotic.
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www.worldbiomes.com/biomes_tundra.htm
www.worldbiomes.com/biomes_tundra.htm
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The word tundra derives from the Finnish word for barren or treeless land. The tundra is the simplest biome in terms of species composition and food chains.
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www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/tundra...
www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/tundra/tundra.html
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The tundra biome is at the top of the world -- around the North Pole! Below a thin layer of tundra soil is its permafrost, a permanently frozen layer of ground. During the brief summers, the top section of the soil may thaw just long enough to allow plants and microorganisms to grow and reproduce.
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www.mbgnet.net/sets/tundra/index.htm
www.mbgnet.net/sets/tundra/index.htm
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Plants in the tundra biome have many adaptations such as being small and able to grow close to the ground to protect from the cold and harsh temperatures. Also they absorb more heat from the sunshine than they get from other plants.
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ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/tundra3/tundra3.html
ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/tundra3/tundra3.html
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There are two types of tundra in the world, Arctic and Alpine. The arctic tundra is at the top of the world around the North Pole. The tops of tall cold mountains are alpine tundra. The most distinctive characteristic of ... A graph that shows a biome's temperature and precipitation over a year's time is a climatogram.
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ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/tundra5/tundra5.html
ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/tundra5/tundra5.html
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