Polar Tundra Animals And Plants
Lichen and moss can be found growing on rocks too.
Polar tundra animals and plants. Animals of the Arctic Tundra 1. The polar bear is a tertiary consumer and is an omnivore. Students create an arctic food web to understand the feeding connections and social relationships between tundra plants and animals.
These tactics will usually involve stealth and patience. Although the animals are marine species students will still gain the concept of a food chain. This is why the polar bears are very fit for this crazy climate of Barrow Alaska.
Many animals live on the tundra including caribou. The tundra is characterized by permafrost a layer of soil and partially decomposed organic matter that is frozen year-round. The Labrador Tea is a plant that mostly grows in the Southern part of the Tundra and there can grow up to about 5 feet but in the northern Tundra when they are found they stay close to the ground and uneaten by most animals because they can be poisonous if eaten even though they are rich in Vitamin C.
It has no predators and it eats Bear berries Musk. The Pine tree has small animals hunting for its twigs and leaves such as the Arctic Hare. Their are many types of animals that survive in the cold tundra like a the polar.
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 Rangifer tarandus. Without these plants food sources are killed for some animals and they will start to die off. This results in an unbalance in the food chain killing off more animals in the environment.
The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food. Bears will use a variety of tactics while hunting seals and. A large amount of the land in the north polar region is part of Earths tundra biome including the northern parts of Canada Alaska US Scandinavian countries and Russia as well as the northern fringes of Greenland that are not covered by ice.