why is tundra region cold throughout the year
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Tundra winters are long, dark, and cold, with mean temperatures below 0°C for six to 10 months of the year. The temperatures are so cold that there is a layer of permanently frozen ground below the surface, called permafrost. ... Vegetation in the tundra has adapted to the cold and the short growing season.
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The tundra region cold throughout the year because:
- Around February-March, the sun begins to shine in the Tundra. It shines for a maximum of an hour and a half at first, then dims. It progresses to two hours, six hours, eight hours, sixteen hours, and finally twenty-four hours.
- As a result, the sun shines for nearly three months, from May to July, for 24 hours, i.e. the entire day.
- The sun, on the other hand, does not rise directly overhead, and because it does so high in the sky, it is never particularly warm, i.e. it is milder than the winter months.
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- The warm weather permits the melting of ice and frozen rivers. Large pieces of ice break off and float into the ocean as icebergs when the lakes fill up.
- During the summer, the land (which was frozen during the winter) springs to life. Throughout the region, a plethora of multicoloured plants, lichens, grass, bushes, and berries have sprouted. Also, many birds and animals come to feed on them.
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