Alaskan Tundra Animals And Plants
Besides the animals that inhabit the tundra year-round there are.
Alaskan tundra animals and plants. 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. Ecosystems in Alaska range from grasslands mountains and tundra to thick forests in which Sitka spruce the state tree western hemlock tamarack white birch and western red cedar dominate the landscape. 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.
Animals that eat both other animals and plants are called omnivores. Various hardy plants and wild flowers spring up during the short growing season on the semiarid tundra plains. Brenda Duty 2020 Robin Dublin Jonne Slemons 1995 1999 2001 Editors.
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. Robin Dublin Karen L.
Due to the large number of small rodents and mammals predators such as arctic foxes and snowy owls also inhabit the tundra. Some animals stay all year round others migrate to warmer places for the winter. This is why the polar bears are very fit for this crazy climate of Barrow Alaska.
Sort animals and plants into the ocean or tundra ecosystem they live in. There are surprisingly many varieties of plants that live in Alaska along with the tundra biome. They have thick blubber that keeps them warm during the winter as well as a thick coat that reinforces that warmth.
Lemmings voles caribou arctic hares and squirrels are examples of tundra herbivores at the bottom of the food web. 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. The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food.