Alaskan Tundra Animals And Plants
The Tundras Animals and Plants.
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. Heres a list of the most common. Animals that eat both other animals and plants are called omnivores.
They have thick blubber that keeps them warm during the winter as well as a thick coat that reinforces that warmth. And draw pictures of life in the ocean and the tundra and state how they are the same and different. The arctic willow is a dwarf shrub that is very small and low to the ground so it can stay warm and survive in the tundra.
ALASKAS TUNDRA WILDLIFE 2020 1 Alaskas Tundra Wildlife. Some animals stay all year round others migrate to warmer places for the winter. The animals and plants in the tundra depend on each other to survive.
Various hardy plants and wild flowers spring up during the short growing season on the semiarid tundra plains. 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.
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. Although the animals are marine species students will still gain the concept of a food chain. Lemmings musk oxen arctic foxes and wolves.
Some animals found on the Alaskan tundra include caribou arctic fox arctic hare arctic ground squirrel and arctic grizzly bear. Robin Dublin Karen L. TUNDRA ANIMALS AND PLANTS.