Tundra places are those places that are the coolest places on earth. These are the places found in arctic region and the snowy hill tops. Tundra places are treeless but not greenery less. These places have short shrubs kind of plants. For much of the time in a year, these places are covered with thick snow. Cool breeze blows all the time with high speed and rain falls very limited. Only time when the earth sees sun is the time when summer comes and wildflowers begin to grow. The summer season is very short here. Below are given some facts about tundra.
1. Plants
The plant growth in tundra is not like the plantation on the other places on earth. small plants grow in the depressions of the rocks where they find warmth to grow and shelter from wind.
2. Animals And Bird
The few lives found on these places are goats, sheep, marmots, polar bear, gray wolves, arctic foxes etc. and some birds. The mammals eat the plants that grow in the rocks.
3. Winter
The winter season is very hard in these places when no plant is seen from the thick layer of tons of snow. The average temperatures of these areas are -6 to -12 c.
4. Summer
Summer season does not last for long. The total summer season lasts for 50 to 60 days. The summer season is not like it is in most areas of the world. Sun shines here for the whole summer for 24 hours.
5. Life In Tundra
Life that we found on tundra is very clinging to life. These animals do not support any slightest change in the environment that occurs more than often now.
6. Global Warming
Global warming is not only a problem for the cities but also for such places. Due to global warming the temperature is rising every year. This rise has led many cold area animals to move to other places to get the same cold environment like the red foxes now live in the places of tundra.
7. Permafrost
Permafrost is the unique natural characteristic of the arctic. It is a layer of frozen soil and dead plants. In south, the layer over permafrost melts down causing the making of lakes of water that destroy animals because they are not used to of this kind of lakes.
8. Birds’ Food
With the melting of permafrost, the sects that are found around the lakes of water during summer, become food for the birds that migrate to find food in other places.
9. The Natural Habitat
The natural habitat of the animals living in the tundra, the southern arctic, was the snow and frozen land but with the rise in temperature, this area’s climate is changing constantly causing the habitat of the animals of frozen areas changing to a great extent.
10. Carbon Contributor
Since, beneath the heavy snow are buried the dead plants, once tundra places were called the co2 sink but they are now contributing the co2 release in the air due to the permafrost melting and decomposition of the dead plants right on the surface of earth.