Climate Diagram Tundra. The growing season is approximately 180 days. The tundra exists primarily in arctic regions but also in high alpine areas.
Much of alaska and about half of canada are in the tundra biome. Location of tundra biome. Some plants are able to survive in the tundra biome.
This leads to low species diversity.
Tundra is known for large stretches of bare ground and rock and for patchy mantles of low vegetation such as mosses lichens herbs and small shrubs. Tundra is a finnish word which means barren land. Tundra is found in the regions just below the ice caps of the arctic extending across north america to europe and siberia in asia. The tundra is the coldest of the biomes.
