Arctic Tundra Animals And Plants. It has no predators and it eats bear berries, musk oxen, caribou, walrus and the harp seal. This topic will explore characteristics such as climate, plant, animals that make this biome unique.

Tundra plants can flower at lower temperatures than any other flowering plants on earth. Most birds and mammals only use the tundra as a summer home. The overall tundra climate allows only the fittest to survive.

And each has its own way of adapting to the extreme climatic conditions.

There are few species with large populations. Due to the minimal vegetation that the tundra region offer, this environment is a home to herbivores (lemmings, voles, caribou, arctic hares and squirrels), carnivores (arctic foxes, wolves, and polar bears), migratory birds (ravens, snow buntings, falcons, loons, sandpipers, terns, snow birds, and sea gulls), insects (mosquitoes, flies, moths, grasshoppers, blackflies and arctic bumble bees) and fish (cod, flatfish, salmon, and trout). The canadian arctic tundra is a biogeographic designation for northern canada's terrain generally lying north of the tree line or boreal forest, that corresponds with the scandinavian alpine tundra to the east and the siberian arctic tundra to the west inside the circumpolar tundra belt of the northern hemisphere. The arctic has over 1700 types of plants that consist of low shrubs, reindeer moss, sedges, liverworts, and grasses.