Did you know that in the Arctic Tundra, the sun never sets when it's summer (https://www.britannica.com)? It would be bright all day! The Arctic tundra is an amazing place with lots of biodiversity. There are two kinds of tundra’s, the Arctic and the Alpine tundra which are both equally important but today we will be focusing on the Arctic Tundra. According to the website https://www.blueplanetbiomes.org, the Arctic tundra is very big and covers about 20% of the Earth's surface, and https://slideplayer.com// says that “The Arctic Tundra is located in the northern hemisphere, encircling the north pole and extending south to the coniferous forests of the taiga.” which would be the countries of Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, Iceland, and Scandinavia. “The Arctic Tundra is one of the coldest places on earth with temperatures in the winter being about -34° C (-30° F), but the average summer temperature is 3-12° C (37-54° F) which enables this biome to sustain life.” (https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/). an exciting fact about the Arctic tundra is that it gets less precipitation than the Desert, which would only be 6-10 inches per year. (https://www.britannica.com)!

The Arctic Tundra has a very cool, cold, and unique surface called Permafrost. The Permafrost layer is a cold layer of ice on the surface of the tundra. It is so hard you would have to have a powerful tool if you wanted to dig even a few feet down into this icy cold surface. Permafrost is why most plants and trees can't grow in the tundra biome. Most of the plants don’t have strong enough roots(https://kidadl.com/)

 so they can’t break into the soil. Many fun and interesting predators live there including the arctic fox, arctic wolf, polar Bear, Canada lynx, wolverines, snowy owls, and the peregrine falcon (https://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/). According to the same website that told us about the predators in the Arctic Tundra, some prey animals that live in the Arctic Tundra are Elk, Deer, Tundra Swans, Atlantic Puffins, Lemmings, and Arctic Hares. Animals that live in the Arctic Tundra have to have special adaptations that help them survive, these include warm thick winter coats like you would see on a musk ox, using snow as insulation like you would see an Arctic Fox doing, camouflaging in their surrounding areas like a Arctic hare, and having sharp claws for digging like a Wolverine (https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/). The Arctic Tundra not only provides many resources for humans to use, but information from the helpful website  https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/ also tells us that the Arctic Tundra provides “abundant wildlife and stunning vistas, low population have made The Arctic Tundra increasingly popular for hiking, camping, and wildlife view.”