Tundra Adaptations

Tundra Adaptations

1. Shelter

   • Lemming, voles, shrews, weasels, squirrels, some plants live beneath the snow
     • The Subnivean Zone
   • Wingless insects
     • Spens their lives in soil, mosses, or plants
   • Plants
     • Near the grounds surface
     • Warmer and less wind near surface

2. Food

   • Arctice grounds squrirrels
   • Marmot
   • Hybernate
     • Squirrals and mormots drop heate rate, breathing, 98% less endery  Bears: modified hibernation, small decrease to heart hate, body temperature is not reduced
   • Bear

3. Size and Shape

   • Tundra Hares
   • Larger Bodies
   • Smaller appendages
   • Arctic Fox
   • Lemmings
   • Small size
     • Arctic Plants
     • Shrews