Alaskan Tundra Animals And Plants

This may be a teacher-directed or independent activity depending on grade level.

Alaskan tundra animals and plants. Although the animals are marine species students will still gain the concept of a food chain. Create food chains for the ocean and the tundra. This is why the polar bears are very fit for this crazy climate of Barrow Alaska.

Animals in the tundra are also adapted to extreme conditions and they take advantage of the temporary explosion of plant and insect life in the short growing season. Many Arctic animals live in the. Identify the conditions needed in the ocean and on the tundra for animals and plants to live.

Lemmings voles caribou arctic hares and squirrels are examples of tundra herbivores at the bottom of the food web. Due to the large number of small rodents and mammals predators such as arctic foxes and snowy owls also inhabit the tundra. The animals and plants in the tundra depend on each other to survive.

The Arctic Creature Mobile Grades K-5 Students create a mobile of Arctic animals that depend on each other for food. Alaska is home to many mammals besides the iconic polar bear. This rich diet enables them to rear their young in an otherwise bleak environment.

Besides the animals that inhabit the tundra year-round there are. And draw pictures of life in the ocean and the tundra and state how they are the same and different. Various hardy plants and wild flowers spring up during the short growing season on the semiarid tundra plains.

This helps it stay warm during the cold days of the tundra. Brenda Duty 2020 Robin Dublin Jonne Slemons 1995 1999 2001 Editors. Some animals stay all year round others migrate to warmer places for the winter.