LET'S FIND OUT BIOMES WHAT IS THE TUNDRA JULIA J QUINLAN Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
WelCome to the tundra All the land on Earth can be divided into biomes Each biome is a large region that has a certain climate and certain types of living things The tundra is one kind of biome A tropical rainforest is another example of a biome The tundra is very different from a tropical rainforest though The tundra is a large barren region with no trees Large areas of tundra lie between the permanent ice of the far north and the northern forests of North America Europe and Musk oxen graze on the tundra in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in western Alaska 4
Asia They cover about 20 percent of Earth’s surface They are some of the coldest places on Earth Vocabulary There are two types of tundra They are the Arctic tundra and the alpine tundra Arctic tundra lies in northern Europe Russia Alaska Canada and Greenland Alpine tundra is found high on mountaintops where trees cannot grow This map shows the world’s major biomes 5 In a barren region there are not many living things
