Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living organisms shaped by climate and ...

The tundra biome is the coldest biome on Earth. They receive very little rainfall, even less than a desert. However, the ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

woodland and tundra. Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra. The animals and plants have to be really tough to survive the freezing conditions.