Tundra+Facts

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MONERANS Monerans are single-celled organisms that don't contain a nucleus.

﻿﻿ One type of monera in the Tundra is/are //Alcaligenes faecalis.// They are bacilli (rod shaped). 

Alcaligenus faecalis Spirilla ,Spiral shaped

= **__Protists__** = = ﻿ Mostly single- celled, contain a nucleus, and organelles. =


 * Algae: Algae is "plant like", with cell walls, and contains chlorophyll **
 * One type of algae found in the Tundra is something comonly called "watermelon snow", its actually something called //Chlamydomonas nivalis,// a type of green algae. It sometimes smells like watermelon. It lives under the ice in glaciers. Below is a picture of this algae. **

A Protozoan is a creature with no cell wall, no chlorophyll and has a nucleus //Loricate suctorians// found on a copepod (which is a crab like creature) that resides in a tundra lake in Alaska.

= Fungus (Fungi) = = multi celled, contains no chlorophyll, and absorbs nuntrients =

One type of Fungus in the Tundra is //Aspergillus fumigatus//. It is found in birds, soil, and decaying organic matter in the Tundra. It can kill/sicken birds, and can cause disease in humans (called aspergillosis). It is commonly known as "Sartorya fumigata."

[[image:Tundra_Fungus_Mushroom.jpg width="327" height="379" caption="Agaricus bisporus lives/grows on the ground of the Tundra"]]
The common name is Reindeer Lichen The scientific Name is //Cladonia rangiferina// This Fungi lives in the Alpine Tundra near a lot of pine trees. **Kingdom: //Fungi//** **Phylum:** **// Ascomycota //** **Class:** ** Ascomycetes ** **Order: //Cladoniaceae//** **Family:** **//Lecanorales//** **Genus:** **//Cladonia//** **Species:** **//rangiferina//**



=//﻿Mucor hiemalis// is commonly known as white or gray mold. It is found in dead and decaying matter and has been found in the soil of the tundra.= =Kingdom: Fungi﻿= =Phylum: Zygomycota= =Class: Zygomycetes= =Order: Mucorales= =Family: Mucoraceae= =Genus: //Mucor//= =Species: //hiemalis//=



= .......................................... Plants .................... = = ............. multi celled, cell walls, and chlorophyll .......... =


 * One type of plant found in the Alpine Tundra is //Leucobryum albidum//, commonly known as Pin Cushion moss. It grows on the ground. **

//**Kingdom:Plantae **// //**Phylum: Bryophyta **// //**Class: Bryopsida **// //**Order: Dicranales **// //**Family: Bombycoidea **// //**Genus: Leucobryum **// //**species: albidum **//


 * Definition of Bryopsida: A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms. **

Another Type of Plant found in the Tundra is called //Saxifraga caespitosa,// commonly known as Tufted Alpine Saxifrage. It grows on the ground of the Alpine tundra.

// Kingdom: Plantae // // Phylum: Magnoliophyta // // Class: Magnoliopsida // // Order: Rosales // // Family: Saxifragaceae // // Genus: Saxifraga // // Species: caespitosa //

Definition of Magnoliophyta: comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in anovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and inothers a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta)

//**Another type of plant found in the Arctic Tundra, is called Salix arctica, and is found in growing on the ground of the arctic Tundra. **// 

//**Species: arctica **//
Definition of Magnoliophyta: comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in anovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and inothers a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta)

 **// Kingdom:Plantae //**
 * <span style="color: #1f07da; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Another type of plant that grows in the Alpine Tundra is called //Equisetun arvense//, and grows near lakes and rivers in the Alpine Tundra. **

// Species: arvense //
===// Equisteophyta: // plants with a fossil record going back to the Devonian. They are commonly known as horsetails. Living species typically grow in wet areas, with needle-like leaves radiating at regular intervals from a single vertical stem. ===

Another Type of plant found in the Tundra is //Lycopodium alpinum//, it is found on the ground in the Alpine Tundra.
//﻿//// Kingdom: Plantae //

// species: alpinum //
Definition of Lycopodiophyta: any spore-bearing vascular plant that is one of the club mosses ﻿ and their allies

**<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Also found in the Alpine Tundra is **
=<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//Psilotum nudum//, it lives in the Alpine tundra, during the growing season(s) =

Species://diander//


This is marchantia aquatica. It is a Bryophyta found in the tundra near water. Marchantia Aquatica Division: Hepaticophyta - Hepaticophyta are a division of brophyte plants commonly referred to as liverworts. Class: Hepaticae Order: Marchantiales Family: Marchantiaceae Genus: //Marchantia// Species: //Marchantia polymorpha// Common Name: Marchantia aquatica
 * Kingdom: Plantae**

The Lady Fern, from the Polypodiophyta division, can be found in the alpine tundra where the soil is well drained. Division: Pteridophyta - Pteridophyta is the devision of plants containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds. Class: Polypodiopsida Order: Polypodiales Family: Drypteridaceae Genus: //Athyrium// Species: f//ilix-femina//
 * Kindgom: Plantae**

Marchantia Aquatica

Lycopdiella inundata is a perennial plant that grows in near bogs, ponds, and wet areas of the tundra. Division: Lycopodiophyta - Lycopodiaphyta is a division of the plant kingdom consisting of the organisms commonly called club mosses Class: Lycoopodiopsida Order: Lycopodiales Family: Lycopodiaceae Genus: Lycopodiella Species: inundata The common name for it is inundated clubmoss.
 * Kingdom: Plantae**

Equisetum Sylvaticum, common name Wood Horsetail, is natie to the northern hemisphere. It is found in mossy places, woods, and tundra. Division:Equisetophyta - Equisetophyta is a small division of the plant kingdom containing all the plants commonly called horsetails. Class: Equisetopsida Order: Equisetales Family: Equisetaceae Genus: //Equisetum// Species: //E. sylvaticum// //Wood Horsetail// Hornworts like this dendroceros crispatus can be found in the tundra growing on rocks or the bark of trees.
 * Kindgom: Plantae**

Division: Anthocerophyta - Anthocerophyta are nonvascular plants with no internal means for water transport, no seed, and no flowers Class: Anthrocerotae Order: Anthocerothales Family:Dendrocerotaceae Genus: //Dendroceros// Species: //Dendroceros crispatus// also know as hornwort
 * Kingdom: Plantae**

= .................................... ... <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Animals ......... = _ __ -multi-celled, and digest food inside body __ __ ﻿ __

<span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">One type of invertabrate in the Tundra, is called Melanoplus spretus, and it lives on the ground in the Alpine Tundra.

<span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Defintion of Arthopoda: a phylum of invertebrate animals (as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans) having a segmented body and jointed appendages, usually <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">a shell of chitin molted at intervals, and an anterior brain dorsal to the alimentary canal and connected with a ventral chain of ganglia. <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Kingdom: Animalia <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phylum: Arthropoda <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class: Insecta <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Order: Orthoptea <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Family: Acrididae <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genus: Melanoplus <span style="background-color: #c8976a; color: #23a41e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Species:spretus

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Also found in the Tundra is the Canis lupus, and it lives in forests, mountains, and almost any where in both the tundras, <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">but this picture below was taken in the Arctic Tundra.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Definition of Chordata: a phylum comprising animals having at least at some stage ofdevelopment a more or less well-developed notochord, a dorsallysituated central nervousesystem <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">, and gill clefts in the walls of thepharynx and including <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">the vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Kingdom: Animalia <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Phylum: Chordata <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Class: Mammilia <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Order: Carnivor <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Family: Canidae <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Genus: Canis <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Species: Lupus

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Also found in the Tundra is the Arctogadus glacialis, it lives in the freshwater thats in that tundra.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Definition of Chordata: a phylum comprising animals having at least at some stage ofdevelopment a more or less well-developed notochord, a dorsallysituatedcentral nervousesystem, and gill clefts in the walls of thepharynx and includingthe vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Kingdom: Animalia <span style="color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Phylum: Chordata <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class: Actinopterygii <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Order: Gadiformes <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Family: Gadidae <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genus: Arctogadus <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Species:glacialis

<span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #ec0909; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Another animal in the tundra lives in canines of the tundra like the white wolf, and arctic foxes. It is called Toxascaris leonina.

<span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #ec0909; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Defintion of Nemata: one opening for food another for waste, straight digestive tube, some are parasites, others live in soil or water.

<span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">﻿Kingdom: Animalia <span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phylum: Nemata <span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class: Secernentea  <span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Order: Ascaridida  <span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Family: Ascarididae  <span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genus: Toxascaris  <span style="background-color: #30fd30; color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">species: leonina <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Also there is Milnesium antarcticum, it lives in the arctic tundra. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Definiton of Tardigrata: Two openings for food/waste, 4 pairs of unjointed legs, live in moist soil or on damp plants

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Kingdom: Animalia <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phylum: Tardigrada  <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class: Eutradigrada  <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Order: Apochela  <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Family: Milnesiidae  <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genus: Milnesium  <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">species: antarcticum

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Also, Rana luteiventris is an animal in the Alpine Tundra, and lives in grassy wet areas in the alpine tundra. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Definition of Amphibian:Part of life in the water﻿ with gills, part of life on land with lungs, two pairs of legs, lay eggs, smooth skin, Endotherm.



<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Kingdom: Animailia <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phylum: Chordata <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class: Amphibia <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Order: Anura <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Family: Ranidae <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genus: Rana

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">species: luteiventris <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Nematopmopha Definition = absorbs nutrients throught the body wall, no circulatory system Class: Not Assigned Order: Gordiodea Family: Chordodidae Genus: //Paragordius// Species: //Tricuspidatus//



Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Annelida Definition = two openings for food/waste, circulatory system Class: Clitellata Order: Haplotaxida Family: Enchytraeidae Genus: //Mesenchytraeus// Species: //Solifugus//



Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Definition = Soft body, two openings, simple organ systems, some with shell Class: Gastropoda Order: Patellogstropoda Family: Nacellidas Genus: //Cellana// Species: //Limpet//

The salmon shark is the only shark to be found in the tundra.



Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Elasmobranchii Definition = <span style="font-family: Calibri; layout-grid-mode: char; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in; tabstops: .5in;">Skeleton of cartilage, fleshy fins Order: Lamniformes Family: Lamnidae Genus: //Lamna// Species: //Ditropis//

Tundra Swan Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordata Class: Aves Definition = <span style="font-family: Calibri; layout-grid-mode: char; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in; tabstops: .5in;">Hollow bones, scaly legs, feathers Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: //Cygnus// Species: //columbianus//

Wood Frog Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Definition = <span style="font-family: Calibri; layout-grid-mode: char; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in; tabstops: .5in;">Spend first part of life in water with gills, second part of life on land with lungs, smooth skin Order: Anura Family: Ranidae Genus: //Lithobates// Species: //sylvaticus//

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