Write a short note of wooden house in frigid zone
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1. The frigid zone is cold through out the
year. In winters the temperature may drop
down to -40 degree C.
2. There is continuous darkness for 6 months
in winters.
3. In summers the temperature hardly reaches
3 degree to 12 degree C.
4. There is continuous daylight for 6 months in
summers.
5. Rainfall may range from 15 to 30 cm in a
year.
The flora in frigid zone are-
mosses, lichens, grasses, flower bearing plants and berry bearing shrubs.
The fauna in frigid zone are-
Reindeer, caribou, polar bear, fox, hare, ermine, musk ox, fish, seals, whales, walruses are some of the animals found here.
The major occupation in frigid regiond are reindeer herding, hunting, trapping of animals and catching fish. They used harpoons to hunt animals, but now they use rifles. They lived in igloos earlier and now they live in wooden houses.
The countries that lie in the frigid zone are:-
1) Canada's Northern most part of the Northwest Territories lies within this region at 66 degrees, 33 minutes North of the Equator, including Victoria Island, Ellesmere, a large part of Baffin Island and several other small islands.
2) The United States' Northernmost area of Alaska, including Brooks Range of mountains, lies above the Arctic Circle.
3) Most of the Greenland, a territory of Denmark, lies above the Arctic Circle.
4) The island nation of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean has just a tip of its territory, Grimsey Island situated 41 km North of the mainland, touching the line of the Arctic Circle.
5) Three of the European nations that make up the Scandinavia span partly into the Frigid Zone. Norway's Svalbard Island lie entirely within this region, as does the Northernmost tip of its mainland. Sweden's Northernmost region - part of Lapland, an area that includes Northern Finland and part of Russia's Kola Peninsula extends into Arctic Circle.
6) Russia, the largest country on Earth, has a long top section within the Arctic Circle that extends from European Russia to Siberia has more Arctic Territory than that any of other Frigid Zone nations.
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