Polar landscapes

This landscapes covers 17% of the Earth’slandmass in evergreen trees. Tall coniferous trees, such as pine, spruce and larch, grow there.

• Tundra

• Boreal forest

• Glacier

_____________ are large areas of connected glaciers, usually covering the flat areas on high plateaus. They are made from snow that has been compressed and frozen.

• Ice fields

• Tundra

• Glacier

__________are made from frozen freshwater. They form when chunks of ice calve (break off) from glaciers,larger icebergs or ice shelves.

• Glaciers

• Icebergs

• Ice fields

This is a slow-moving mass of ice formed by the compaction of snow. Many years of snow build up before transforming into ice.

• Ice fields

• Icebergs

• Glacier

This is a large area of land where it is too cold for trees to grow and the low-growing vegetation that can grow in the tundra includes small shrubs, grasses and mosses.

• Tundra

• Boreal forests

• Mountains

Musk oxen, reindeer, polar bears, Arctic wolves and rock ptarmigans can be found in the Arctic mountains.

• True

• False