Tundr The Coldest Biome In The Earth

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What is Tundra? The tundra can be found at the top of the earth close to the North Pole. It’s a huge biome that looks so nice and covers the fifth of the earth’s surface. Tundra comes from the word Tunturia. Tundra is the coldest biome in the earth, and it’s hard to live in it from how cold it is. Tundra doesn’t have trees (treeless) in the Arctic and top of the mountains where the climate is cold or windy. Extremely low temperature and a little precipitation Tundra’s lands are covered with snow until summer comes
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A tundra is a treeless place; it is cold for the whole year and in summer the sun shine for 24 hours a day, it is called “the land of the midnight sun”. But the sun is not ever warm in the tundra the shortest

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