types‚ we have nine different biomes‚ tropical rain forest (tropical)‚ tropical savanna (tropical)‚ tropical deserts (tropical)‚ temperate forests (temperate)‚ temperate grasslands (temperate)‚ Chaparrals (temperate)‚ temperate deserts (temperate)‚ tundra (polar) and taiga (polar). The Tropical Desert gets less than twenty-five centimeters of rain yearly. Since this is a desert‚ it has very poor soil quality and temperatures ranging from 61-120 degrees. Many animals live in this type of biome‚
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge‚ or ANWR‚ is a refuge geared toward preserving national wildlife in northeastern Alaska. ANWR is about 19 million acres‚ in space‚ and contains a potential drilling spot for oil and petroleum. The potential drilling spot is a small area known as the 10-02 Area. It is only 1.5 million acres‚ or 8%‚ of ANWR‚ would even be considered for development (What is ANWR). The controversy surrounding ANWR is whether to drill or not to drill into the 10-02 area. Some people want
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Tundra is the coldest of all the biomes‚ Tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia‚ meaning treeless plain. It is noted for its frost-molded landscapes‚ extremely low temperatures‚ little precipitation‚ poor nutrients‚ and short growing seasons.A climate is a habitat around the world. The Tundra has snow everywhere and has very short growing seasons which means plants are hard to grow and farmers or whoever is planting crops need to plant early summer or fast enough before summer ends. The Tundra
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Tundra Biome {draw:frame} {draw:frame} The arctic tundra can be found in the northern hemisphere‚ encircling the North Pole and extending to the coniferous forest of taiga. Some specific locations of the arctic tundra include Northern America (Northern Alaska‚ Canada‚ and Greenland)‚ Northern Europe (Scandinavia)‚ and Northern Asia (Siberia). The alpine tundra can be found in the mountains throughout the world at high altitudes where trees are unable to grow. They can be found in Northern
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Marine biomes ■ Lakes ■ Wetlands ■ Rivers and Streams 3. Differentiate the different kinds of biomes in a tabulated form based on the following: | DESERT | FOREST | FRESHWATER | GRASSLAND | MARINE | TUNDRA | Description | This biome is the driest; it only receives 50cm of rainfall a year | Forest biomes cover about 1/3 of the Earth’s land surface | water that has a salt level of less than 1%; This biome also plays an important role for life on
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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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framework consists of 15 ecozones. Within these are 194 ecoregions. Arctic Cordillera This ecozone incorporates vast polar ice fields and has some of the most spectacular alpine glacier scenery in the world. Massive ice caps and glaciers mask many of the rugged mountains. Some of Canada’s highest but least-known peaks are found here‚ towering over U-shaped valleys and deep fiords that extend many kilometres inland. This Arctic Cordillera occupies the northeastern fringe of the Northwest Territories
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are the Arctic people and they came from the north . Nowadays‚ the Inuits still live in the Arctic regions. The Inuits have interesting homes‚ clothing‚ foods‚ traditions and culture. The Inuit people live in the cold places‚ there are more than 100‚000 of them are living on the earth. Almost of them live in the southern part of the Arctic Circle. They used simple material to make their homes like woods‚ because it was hard to find other material in the frozen tundra of the Arctic. In the
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Tundra climate is usually found between the 60-75 degree latitude lines. Tundra climate is mainly found along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Tundra is a transition climate between Ice Cap and Subarctic‚ similar to Semiarid being a transition between Arid and more humid climate. Tundra climate areas experience a very harsh winter and a cool summer. During the summer‚ much of the snow and ice melts and forms soggy marshes and bogs. However‚ some of the deeper parts of the soil stays frozen even
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of square kilometres of tundra and icy coasts from Siberia to Northern America and Greenland. Therefore‚ hunting became the core of the culture and cultural history of the Inuit. Thus‚ the everyday life in modern Inuit settlements‚ established only some decades ago‚ still reflects the 5‚000-year-long history of a typical hunting culture which allowed the Inuit peoples and their ancestors to achieve one of the most remarkable human accomplishments‚ the population of the Arctic. S This is what I found
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