Location:
Come visit us at various locations including: Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, and Norway!!!
(http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm)
- mostly located in the northern hemisphere, closer to the North Pole
- covers about 20% of the earth
- about 3 million square miles long
- 55 degrees- 75 degrees N
- (http://www.ri.net/schools/West_Warwick/manateeproject/Tundra/Land.htm)
Come visit us at various locations including: Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, and Norway!!!
(http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm)
Climate:
- average winter temperature is -34° C (-30° F)
- average summer temperature is 3-12° C (37-54° F)
- summer last for about 6 to 10 weeks
- rainfall varies among different regions, but yearly precipitation, including melting snow, is 15 to 25 cm (6 to 10 inches).
- (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/tundra.html)
- dry, cold, and windy