Polar Tundra Animals And Plants
The Pine tree has small animals hunting for its twigs and leaves such as the Arctic Hare.
Polar tundra animals and plants. Students create an arctic food web to understand the feeding connections and social relationships between tundra plants and animals. Arthropods with hard crusty shells. Plankton are tiny plants animals and bacteria that float on the surface.
Some of the animals that live in the polar biome include polar bears penguins and arctic foxes on land and seals whales and zooplankton in the ocean 3. Lemmings musk oxen arctic foxes and wolves. Cetacea mammals that are divided into two broad groups toothed and baleen.
Only a thin layer of soil called the active layer thaws and refreezes each year. They are very cold and have little precipitation. A blood-sucking insect that can transmit some diseases.
This results in an unbalance in the food chain killing off more animals in the environment. One to three class periods. Arctic Tundra Animals And Plants.
Animals that live in the polar biome include polar bears beluga whales killer whales and harbor seals 4. The tundra plants consist mostly of mosses grasses lichens sedges and shrubs. The windswept treeless plains of the Arctic tundra sometimes look barren but they are inhabited by a multitude of plants and animals.
Wolves are the top predators. Since most of the polar biome is located above the arctic circle where there is no land plant life is nearly non existent in this biome. Some animals stay all year round others migrate to warmer places for the winter.