1HV - Chapter 2 - Lesson 6 - Inuit in Greenland

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LANDSCAPE ZONES

in the world

Today's Lesson 

To do: 

-Check HW

-Desertification and overgrazing.

-Par.3-> cold climate zones: polar, tundra, taiga

Goals:

-You can describe the difference in vegetation, temperature, landscape between tundra climate, taiga and polar climate 

Land- and sea ice

• Polar climate: always below 0 degrees celcius
• No vegetation: too cold
  
• Ice will form onto the land: land ice
• The sea is also frozen (sea ice). Sometimes a part will break off and float away: drift ice.
  

INUIT

IN GREENLAND

What vegetation do you see? What vegetation is missing here?

Tundra climate zone

Tundra climate:

cold climate

covered with snow/ice for most of the year

mosses, shrubs, no trees, few animals 

Tundra climate graph

Taiga

Taiga: south of tundra.

 Canada and Russia.

In summer > 10 ⁰C, trees can grow!  

Coniferous forests

Tundra

Taiga

Taiga

Coniferous trees

Homework

Decidious trees