1. Name: Dr. Cullen Blanton
The Marsholf
Name: Dr. Cullen Blanton

2. Habitat of Your Animal
Location: Greenland, Russia, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Alaska, Iceland.
Characteristics: it has permafrost, and is treeless.
What it takes to survive: Animals need to have fat, small ears, thick fur, different coats for summer and winter, and live in herds.

3. More Information on Habitat

4. Plants
Bearberry
Moss
Lichen

5. Animals
Marmot
Gyrfalcon
Ptarmigan
(on slide 7)
Caribou
Musk Oxen

6. Climate The tundra has short summers and very long winters
winter summer

7. Animal Adaptations
Herds help protect young and enables animals to hunt larger prey. The fat and thick fur helps keep animals warm. Small ears help keep body heat. Changing coats give camouflage.
summer winter

8. My Animal

9. Evidence
The Marsholf lives in herds because it is part wolf. It has thick fur because it is part snowshoe hare, part arctic wolf, and part marmot It hibernates because it is part marmot It changes coats because it is part snowshoe hare

10. Citations
Foreman, M. (1997). Arctic tundra. Danbury, CT: Children's Press.
Pipes, R. (1999). Tundra and cold deserts. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers.