Ecosystem that I have choose : tundra

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Ecosystem that I have chose :
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Tundra : what is tundra?

Tundra is an ecosystem
which is a
treeless region found
in the artic
and on top of
mountains. Tundra
lands
are mostly covered
with snow for much
of the year, however
 Population of tundra
There are many types of animals, the most common animal is polar bear.
It is
a hypercarnivorous bear. It is the largest extant bear species, as well as the
largest land carnivore. A male adult polar bear, known as a boar can
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weigh about
350 - 700 kg, while a female bear, known as a sow is about half that size.
Most of
them are born on land but they spend most of their time in sea. Their skin
is
actually black and its skin is actually translucent. It’s fur only appears
white
because it reflects visible light
 Community of
Tundra
Tundra has many types of animals

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like i mentioned before, for
Since tundra is treeless, plants in
example, artic fox, penguins,
tundra are low growing plants.
walrus, sea lions
Those
plants include arctic moss, arctic
Arctic
willow, lichen and many more
Artic Walru willow
fox s
 Ecosystem of
tundra
It’s environment is mostly cold. The average temperature is around -18 degrees
Fahrenheit.
It gets colder during winter and warmer during summer. It consists of permafrost which
is a layer of ground below the topsoil that remains frozen throughout the year. It limits
trees from growing as trees need deep root and they cannot be grown in frozen
grounds.

Permafrost
 The two types of tundra

Alpine Arctic tundra

It cover 3% of the earth’s land
tundra
surface It is located at higher altitudes in
and is mostly found in the northern the polar region of the northern
hemisphere. This region exists at hemisphere.
very It is the land around the North Pole
high elevations atop mountains.
Where overnight temperature fall
below freezing
 Biosphere of
tundra
There are many types of ecosystems including forests, desserts, grassland, tundra,
marine
and freshwater. Each of them have different climates. The climate of tundra is cold that
there is permafrost like i said, it is also very cold, windy and rainfalls are scant.
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