What Are Tundras? | National Geographic

Derived from the Finnish word tunturia, meaning treeless or barren land, tundra is the coldest and driest of all biomes. Despite these extreme conditions, the tundra is home to several unique species of plant and animal. Learn the difference between arctic and alpine tundra, and what impacts melting permafrost could have on our changing planet.
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The growing season in tundras is 180 days - less than half a year! What new facts did you learn about this distinct ecosystem?

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I learned....that they failed to recognize the third type: Urban Tundra. Inside Large Cities where Former Automotive Factories and Train Yards used to exist, have since been demolished, leaving giant kilometer-wide Concrete Slabs as a footprint of what was once there! These flat, treeless regions, without atmosphere-inducing vegetation to cause natural rainfall are absent of it throughout much of the year, reducing soil quality and causing widespread Species Extirpation of Plants and Animals, which is illegal in Canada according to Federal Laws. These regions during Winter become places of Intense Windchill Gusts, becoming extraordinarily lethal during events of Polar Vortex, contributing to lose of human life, particularly amongst homeless and low-income families and children. These events also occur in Major Urban Centers, such as Downtown Areas, which are also void of Natural Vegetation and become Wind Tunnels due to the presence of Sky Scrapers. I live in East Windsor Ontario, next to one such Urban Tundra. People in Wheelchairs have died when crossing that area, the cold air freezing their batteries leaving them trapped overnight without anybody to hear their screams for help. Everything I have mentioned here, is absolutely true and avoidable, but is of no interest of Municipal, Provincial, or Federal Governments, to solve. People Are Dying, and the environment is already dead. This is the nightmare of Global Warming, it is real, and it is a killer.

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That is a harsh biome to living beings

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Great video about different tundras- artic and alpine. Nice presentation. Thank you. Big thumbs up! :))

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. Polar bear, Arctic fox, Arctic wolf, lemming, Arctic hare, Arctic ground squirrels, caribou, musk ox, mountain goat, elk, ptarmigan, grizzly bear and snowy owl are some of the animals found in the tundra region.
About tundra

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They actually aren't the harshest, those are the great desserts. The growing season is the key in the tundra, they are so vibrant.

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Cool facts

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Learnt about Torrid Fridgid and Tundra in the 5th grade...im here decades after that.

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helped in my environmental sicenice class

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There are three types of tundra territories: the Arctic tundra, the Alpine tundra and the Antarctic tundra ( source - wikipedia)
And this video described 2 typ😢???

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Unlike all you scrubs, I'm here because I think tundras are cool and I just typed "tundra" in the search bar.

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Anyone know what song was used here?

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The word tundra actually derived from the Sámi languages. The Finnish word also derived from Sámi.

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Wish there was more information about the tundra itself. Information about the tundra was cut short to talk about global warming. : (

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I never knew a place like the alpine having no snow was considered a tundra. Hmmm

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green vegetation found in tundra region for this conclusion i reached this video

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I am here because I had a dream of a
Battle I partook in. It was cold and dry

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I thought Tundra is Kuai Liang's name! Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat series..

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Who came to study but found a part of ur chapter

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There are trees at 1:02

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Lol!

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0:31

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I'm here for a 7th grade assignment, congrats on being so popular

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Carbon content in atmosphere itself abOut 0.02% ..then how can be carbon content 14% in permafrost????

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can we grow ginseng here? 😊

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I don’t need this video, I have Minecraft.

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What is permafrost

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