Tundra

Tundra

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Inuit
Inuit live in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland. They are the largest group of people who live in Tundras. They speak Inuktitut which includes seven different dialects. They make dresses in traditional clothing, made primarily of caribou skins and fur. Inuits can live with hunting caribous, seals, whales, and fish. MORE INFO

Yakut
The Yakut people live in Siberia tundras. Today there are about 400,000 Yakuts living in this earth. It takes about 3,103,200 sq km, roughly five times the size of France. It’s the largest Republic in the Russian Federation and over 40% of it lies in the Arctic. The name Yakut is derived from an Evenki word ‘Yakolt’ meaning ‘outsiders’ or ‘strangers,’ but the Yakut, call themselves ‘Sakha.’

The foods that the Yakut eat are fish, vegetables and meat. When the Yakuts are finished eating, they never have leftovers.But when there are leftover like veins the Yakuts use it for the thread.WHAT ELSE? They are herders, Herders are a group that controls animals. By animals it is Horses, Cattles and reindeers. They move the animals over long distances and use them for meat and work. They spend their days fishing, which is the primary economic activity, and hunting which they do primarily for the furs. They change locations twice a year with winter hunting camps and summer hunting camps.





= Life =

Life Polar bears are marine mammal. They have three names Polar bear, Ursus maritimus, or the sea bear,started to evolve about five million years ago from brown bear ancestors Polar bears have thick, warm fur. It is a powerful swimmer and feeds chiefly on seals. Polar bears live along shores and on sea ice in the icy cold Arctic. When sea ice forms over the ocean in cold weather, many polar bears, except pregnant females, head out onto the ice to hunt seals. Polar bears have been spotted on sea ice hundreds of miles from shore. When the warm weather causes the sea ice to melt, polar bears move back toward shore. Polar bears live in the circumpolar north

Penguins are a group of [|aquatic], [|flightless birds]. Most penguins feed on [|krill], [|fish], [|squid] and other forms of [|sealife] caught while swimming underwater. They spend about half of their lives on land and half in the oceans. You can find penguins in captivity in every continent, however all known species of penguins live naturally in the southern hemisphere. When Penguins breed the mom give birth the mom goes get food and the dad keep care of the baby. Penguins have only one egg per year that they mate. If their mate dies, they never mate again. If a penguin has more than one egg, one will die, or it will care for neither properly.

The Arctic Fox is circumpolar and can be found throughout the Arctic region. This includes parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, Iceland Scandinavia, Svalbard, and Alaska.Arctic Foxes' diets consist of small mammals including voles and lemmings, as well as on birds and their eggs. Arctic Foxes are opportunistic and will sometimes scavenge on dead carcasses of animals, and they are often seen following Polar Bears to feed on the leftovers the bears leave behind. Arctic Foxes will also eat some vegetation such as berries. Like many foxes, the Arctic Fox builds a den. For the Arctic Fox the den can sometimes be in a hillside or river bank, and will usually have multiple entrances and exits. The Arctic Fox can be found in arctic or alpine tundra. The Arctic Fox measures 3 - 3.5 feet in length from head to tail. The weight of the Arctic Fox can range from 6 - 9 pounds, with females being smaller than males. Like many animals of the tundra, Arctic Foxes have special adaptations to help them survive in extremely cold climates. These adaptations include fur on its paws the help keep them warm, a thick, dense coat of fur around its body, short ears, a small body, and a large and bushy tail that it uses to curl around its body. Arctic Foxes' mating season occurs in the spring, and after a gestation period of 7 - 8 weeks a female Fox will give birth to an average litter size of 6 - 8 kits.

= Weather =

In winter the temperature in Tundra’s would be, -50°F. In the summer it would be over 50°F. Tundra’s are the coldest and driest place in the world. In Tundra’s, during the long winter months the sun barley rises to the sky, but dark for most of the days. The snow that falls in the winter is blown to the high plateaus then to the valleys. Some places in Tundra’s there are little rainfalls. When it rains every year, it is only about 10 inches.

In Tundra’s winters are long and summers are short. Summers only last for 6-10 weeks. In the winter it is hard for the people who live, and visit. The reason is that the place is freezing cold and with snow storms and blizzards. And in summers the surface of the ground would melt. It is still cold but it is only chilly. The summer time, in Tundra’s it the ground becomes soggy friom melted snow and rain. = Glacier =

A glacier is a large body of ice. Glaciers can only form where it snows a lot in the winter than melts in the summer. If Glaciers melt too much, it would cause a rise in the sea level. Glaciers all over the world are shrinking pretty fast because of the Earth’s temperature are rising. It is believed that people are causing the Earth’s temperature to rise by sending lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, that leads to the global warming.

= Why are glaciers important to humans? =

We can find Glaciers in Antarctica, the Glaciers are getting smaller, even if it’s so cold. Scientists are worried that the Glaciers would melt, it would not only cause huge floods, it would also lead to less drinkable water. This is because the ice sheets, the earth

= Natural Disaster =

In Tundras there are a very few Natural Disaster.

Asteroids
Asteroids are one of the Natural Disaster from Tundra's. The reason is that the Tundras are on top of the earth, so the magnetic magnet pulls the asteroid.

Blizzards
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Extreme Cold
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= Protecting Tundras =

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Networks
A network is a balanced relationship that keeps life together and connected to every other living thing. There are two types of networks; Symbiotic and Trophic.

Symbiotic; Caribous eats the shrubs and the seed is planted than, it would be a new shrub that the Caribous would eat.

Trophic; The fish eats the sun algae, than the seal eats the fish, than the polar bear eates the seal.

Nested System
A nested system of penguin. First it starts with, a penguin. If there are many penguins there would be an group. Then it would be an animal because penguins are animals. Then at last it would be an Eco System.

Cycles
A cycle is an invisible order of events that creates the things nature needs to stay alive. Because Earth is on a tilt, its orbit creates changes in the temperature because of the distance from the sun (more energy hits the Earth in summer, less in winter). For example, it the winter everything freezes and the animals go somewhere else to eat, but in the spring, when the plants grow, they come back.

In tundras when it is Spring, the plants grow and the animals come to the place that there are plants. When it is winter the animals leave were the plants were, and the plants die. Flows A Flow is when life energy goes through an ecosystem and may or may not come back. For example, Wolves come to Tundras to get food like Birds, Rabbits... In the winter the wolves go down south. Also, the sun sends rays of energy that flow through all life. (produces, consumers, decomposers) So, they flow down the ecosystem.

Development
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Dynamic Balance
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http://www.ehow.com/facts_7485756_lives-tundra.html#ixzz2SrgHbQDI

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_languages

http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/about-polar-bears/essentials/home-range-and-cold-climate [] []

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