Tundra Wildlife
This antlered mammal is an herbivore.
What is a reindeer or caribou?
Climate change is causing this to melt.
What is permafrost?
This adaptation allows tundra plants to survive the strong winds.
What is growing close to the ground?
True or false, most of the animals that live in the polar regions live on land.
What is false?
These two animals have dark skin that helps them retain heat beneath their white fur coats.
What are polar bears and arctic foxes?
A large mammal that eats fresh, fatty meat.
What is a polar bear?
The tundra biome is found in 3 places.
What is Arctic, Antarctic, and mountain top?
This plant with lavender flowers was named because it lives where frogs live.
What is the Pasque flower?
The reason the sun's rays don't melt the ice in the polar regions.
What is the sun's rays reflect off the ice?
This mammal has a long neck so it can keep its head above water when it swims.
What is a polar bear?
A small mammal that burrows under the snow.
What is a lemming?
The Arctic tundra has this season for only 6 weeks of the year.
What is summer?
This is the only tree that is able to grow in the harsh climate of the Arctic tundra.
What is the dwarf willow?
Frozen masses of slowly moving water.
What are glaciers?
This small carnivore is able to catch animals larger than itself because it is fast and has sharp teeth.
What is an ermine?
This mammal has a fluffy tail that acts like a blanket when it sleeps.
What is the arctic fox?
The percentage of the earth's surface covered by tundra.
What is 20%?
This formation develops when salt water in the tundra biome freezes.
What are ice flowers?
These two penguin species live exclusively in Antarctica.
What are Emperor and Adelie penguins?
This hoofed animal has very long hair and a woolly undercoat to keep it warm in winter.
What is a musk ox?
This omnivore is born with a full fur coat and open eyes.
What is the Arctic hare or polar rabbit?
The tundra is similar to this biome in the amount of precipitation it receives each year.
What is the desert?
This gas is absorbed by the tundra which helps to stabilize global temperature.
What is carbon dioxide?
This large bird spends more time at sea than any other and can dive to depths of more than 300 meters.
What is the King penguin?
This animal's eyes take up more space in its skull than its brain.
What is a snowy owl?