and begin to extract what ever they can be balance can be tipped‚ resulting in pollution and destruction of the environment. Climate. The Artic The Arctic Circle Ditions enclose roughly the same territory‚ which is somewhat larger than the region bounded by the Arctic Circle‚ and will be used as the basis for this article.The largest Arctic ... winters much longer than the Summer. In the winter the sun never rises and in the summer it never sets. The average temperature for the Artic is zero
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In the Alaskan Tundra‚ abiotic factors include wind‚ temperature‚ and sunlight. Abiotic factors are nonliving things that influence or affect the ecosystem and the organisms in it. Factors such as wind‚ temperature‚ and sunlight can have a lasting effect on an ecosystem such as an Arctic Tundra. In the Alaskan Tundra‚ strong and persistent winds rush through the air. These winds desiccate and abrade plant tissues‚ contributing to one of the many factors of why tundras aren’t able to grow trees.
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should stop drilling for oil in the Alaskan Tundra or if they should carry on drilling in it. History of the Alaskan Oil Industry Prudhoe Bay is frozen for most of the year so transporting oil by ship is impossible. Following the discovery of the Alaskan Prudhoe Bay oil field in 1968‚ pipeline designers faced the challenge of building a pipeline to carry 1.6 million barrels per day of oil across 800 miles ice‚ snow covered mountains and frozen Tundra. The risk of accidents and spillages is very
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footprint on the Arctic Fox Michael Mays Biology 102 April 28‚ 2011 I wanted to do my research on an animal that was not all that common. We hear all the time about if we don’t stop doing this or this then there won’t be any more Polar Bears‚ etc. But there are so many other species out there that we never hear about that really might have a bigger impact on humans if they become extinct. So that is why I choose to do my project over Arctic Foxes. Slide MM #2 The Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus)
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The Tundra is an enormous biome. It covers about one fifth of the earth! That is a good part of the Earth. Greenland is a very good example of the tundra. It is located near the top of the world‚ near the north pole! The most distinctive characteristic of the tundra‚ is its permanent layer of permafrost‚ which means it has a thick layer of frozen soil throughout the year. The latitude of the tundra is 66.5625 degrees north‚ 0 degrees east. The tundra does not have many types of vegetation. It has
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Question 1 10 out of 10 points | | | Name the five types of ecosystems used in this laboratory‚ [1]‚ [2]‚ [3]‚ [4]‚ and [5]. | | | | | Specified Answer for: 1 | tundra | Specified Answer for: 2 | taiga | Specified Answer for: 3 | desert | Specified Answer for: 4 | freshwater lake | Specified Answer for: 5 | tropical rain forest | | | | | Question 2 3.7 out of 3.7 points | | | Fungi are examples of Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | E. decomposers
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Citing specific examples‚ discuss the physiological‚ morphological‚ behavioral and anatomical adaptative traits of biomes in: a) ASAL ecosystems and b) Tundra ecosystems. 1. Critically examine the relevance of the theory of natural selection in biogeographical studies. DATE: AUGUST‚ 2011. ARID AND SEMI-ARID LANDS ECOSYSTEMS Introduction The deserts of the world are areas in which there is a great deficit of water. They are areas with great moisture shortage
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John Ziker’s‚ Peoples of the Tundra‚ provides a detailed accounting of the lives of the Dolgan and Nganasan tribes living in the northern region of Russia. His purpose is to study the changing economic systems and the reactions to such changes‚ primarily after the fall of the Soviet state. Further study was focused into the continuing isolation of the Dolgan and Nganasan communities by soviet control‚ taxation on property and goods‚ control of how and when these goods were exchanged‚ and how the
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The tundra is a very cold and hostile place for the sole reason of its climate. The tundra is a cold‚dry and empty place because of permafrost. Permafrost is a thick layer of soil that stays frozen for the entire year. Because of this‚ most plants cannot grow here especially trees because they can’t have their roots bury deep into the ground since it is frozen solid. The average temperature is around -18 degrees fahrenheit. During the summer the sun barely ever goes down and temperatures can range
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Climate change in the Tundra will cause very alarming problems that hold the potential to affect the present generation and those to come. Climate change is an adjustment of global or regional weather patterns. The Tundra has a frigid climate‚ frozen soil‚ and animals such as lemmings and polar bears. Additionally‚ there are flowers and grasses throughout the land. Nutrients for such plants come from dead and decomposing biological matter. Essentially all the precipitation is in the form of snow
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