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Tundra (Climate (The temperatures stay below 0°C most of the year., The…
Tundra
Climate
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The ground remains frozen, apart from a few centimetres of thaw in the summer.
The precipitation is gentle, mainly falling as snow.
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Summers may have many hours of continuous daylight. Winters are long, dark periods.
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Characteristics
The climatic conditions mean that the landscape is quite bare, with little vegetation.
Tundra areas include Northern parts of Canada, Russia and Alaska.
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Adaptations
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Plants are low growing, compact and rounded in order to help protect from the wind.
Cotton grass is a plant able to survive these conditions. The features which make it able to survive are:
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