Where can I get a chart of the average annual temperature of the biome tundra?
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I am not cutting and pasting the charts. Instead I am giving you link which will lead you to the charts.\nhttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/biotundra.html\nhttp://www.washlee.arlington.k12.va.us/staff/science/rymiller/kudravetztraynham/tundra.html\n\nhttp://www.whps.org/schools/sedgwick/research/tundraquest.html\n\nhttp://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/biomes.html
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the tundra\n\nmeters of peat thick
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http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=biogeographical+maps
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You know what they say? Go straight to the source!\n\nhttp://www.arcticcat.com/snow/
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Taiga (IPA pronunciation: /'taɪgə/, from the Russian тайга́) is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of inland Canada, northern Russia, and Siberia, the taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome and one of the major sources of oxygen. In Canada, boreal forest is the term used to refer to the southern part of this biome, while taiga is used to describe the more barren northern areas south of the Arctic tree-line.\n\nSince North America and Eurasia were recently connected by the Bering land bridge, a number of animal and plant species (more animals than plants) were able to colonise both continents and are distributed throughout the taiga biome. Others differ regionally, typically with each genus having several distinct species each occupying different regions of the taiga.\n\nClimate and geography\nThe taiga biome has a harsh continental climate with a very large temperature range between summer and winter, classified as "Dfc" or "Dfb" in the Köppen climate classification scheme. Aside from the tundra and permanent ice caps, it is the coldest biome on Earth. High latitudes mean that for much of the year the Sun hovers at the horizon; winters last at least 6 months, with average temperatures below freezing. Temperatures vary from -50 ˚C to 30 ˚C throughout the whole year, with 8 or more months of temperatures averging below 10 ˚C. The summers, while short, are generally warm and humid.\n\nThe taiga experiences relatively low precipitation throughout the year (200-750 mm annually), primarily as rain during the summer but also as fog and snow, but as evaporation is also low for most of the year, precipitation exceeds evaporation and is sufficient for dense vegetation growth.\n\nMuch of the area currently classified as taiga was recently glaciated. As the glaciers receded, they gouged out depressions in the topography. These depressions have since filled with water, creating lakes and bogs (especially muskeg soil) that can be found throughout the taiga.\n\nSoil of taiga is very acidic. When needles fallen from conifers decompose, they secrete an acid which prevents plants other than conifers from growing there. This process, termed allelopathy, also occurs where evergreen trees are planted in other biomes, such as temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, slowing the rate at which the area returns to its natural state. The soil is called podsol.\n\nTaiga biomes are not found in the Southern Hemisphere because there is little landmass at the characteristic latitudes, with little similarity even in the Magellanic subpolar forests of Chile and Argentina, where the climate is strongly oceanic.\n\nFlora\nThe forests of the taiga are largely coniferous, dominated by larch, spruce, and pine. Evergreen species in the taiga (spruce and pine) have a number of adaptations specifically for survival in harsh taiga winters, though larch, the most cold-tolerant of all trees, is deciduous. Because the Sun is low in the horizon for most of the year, it is difficult for plants to generate energy from photosynthesis. Pine and spruce do not lose their leaves seasonally and are able to photosynthesize with their older leaves in late winter and spring when light is good but temperatures are still too low for new growth to commence. The adaptation of evergreen needles limits the water lost due to transpiration and their dark green color increases their absorption of sunlight. Although precipitation is not a limiting factor, the ground freezes during the winter months and plant roots are unable to absorb water, so desiccation can be a severe problem in late winter for evergreens.\n\nAlthough the taiga is dominated by coniferous forests, some broadleaf trees also occur, notably birch, aspen, willow, and rowan. Many smaller herbaceous plants grow closer to the ground. Periodic stand-replacing wildfires (with return times of between 20-200 years) clear out the tree canopies, allowing sunlight to
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http://earth.google.com/
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Here's one from Biodidac (great site for illustrations):\nhttp://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/Thumbnails/showimage.cfm?File_name=Aves065b&File_type=gif
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its mostly boreal forest further north of 60 degrees north (latitude). this excludes britain which is warmed by the gulf stream, and is temperate forest. the boreal forests contain huge numbers of needle leaved trees such as pine and fir. Further north of this is the tundra (northern scandinavia and northern siberia) where there is much less vegetation. small shrubs grow here low to the ground where there is shelter from the cold winds.
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Oregon Scientific makes a good one:\nhttp://www.ambientweather.com/wmorscwiprwe.html\n\nYou can look at some alternates there too.
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The word tundra derives from the Finnish word for barren or treeless land. The tundra is the simplest biome in terms of species composition and food chains.
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NASA WorldWind:\nhttp://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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http://www.martinwgrosnick.com/AkHtmls/Caribou_26816.html
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This is a direct quote (copy and paste):\n"Mean annual temperatures range from 64° F in the extreme southeast to 40° F or lower in high mountains and valleys of the north; elevation is a greater factor in determining the temperature of any specific locality than its latitude.  This is shown by only a 3° F difference in mean temperature between stations at similar elevations, one in the extreme northeast and the other in the extreme southwest; however, at two stations only 15 miles apart, but differing in elevation by 4,700 feet, the mean annual temperature are 61° and 45° F – a difference of 16° F or a little more than 3° decrease in temperature for each 1,000-foot increase in elevation."
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info\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_climate\n\ngraph\nhttp://www.vaw.ethz.ch/research/glaciology/permafrost/gz_permafrost_temp_monitoring_1.jpg/image\nhttp://www.cbr.washington.edu/data/Streams/dataimg/Storet134.gif
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GOOGLE EARTH or NASA WORLD WIND, depending on what exactly you need, both are free of charge, downloadable and partially renewable.\ncheers
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/statistics.html
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Try http://googleearth.com\nMaster.