Name: Dr. Cullen Blanton The Marsholf Name: Dr. Cullen Blanton
Habitat of Your Animal Location: Greenland, Russia, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Alaska, Iceland. Characteristics: it has permafrost, and is treeless. What it takes to survive: Animals need to have fat, small ears, thick fur, different coats for summer and winter, and live in herds.
More Information on Habitat http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Ru200008050084.jpg
Plants Bearberry Moss Lichen
Animals Marmot Gyrfalcon Ptarmigan (on slide 7) Caribou Musk Oxen
Climate The tundra has short summers and very long winters winter summer
Animal Adaptations Herds help protect young and enables animals to hunt larger prey. The fat and thick fur helps keep animals warm. Small ears help keep body heat. Changing coats give camouflage. summer winter
My Animal
Evidence The Marsholf lives in herds because it is part wolf. It has thick fur because it is part snowshoe hare, part arctic wolf, and part marmot It hibernates because it is part marmot It changes coats because it is part snowshoe hare
Citations Foreman, M. (1997). Arctic tundra. Danbury, CT: Children's Press. Pipes, R. (1999). Tundra and cold deserts. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers. http://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm http://www.factmonster.com/dk/encyclopedia/habitats.html http://www.mbgnet.net/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/tundra/tundra.shtml