Why is tundra globally important?

Answer 1

Even though it may seem too cold and barren for any life, the tundra biome is an important region that is full of different plants and animals. We need the tundra because it has a part in creating the biodiversity (the variety of species) of the Earth. Biodiversity is important because it makes Earth what it is. We depend on various living species- some provide us with food, some (such as decomposers) clean up after us, some plants (especially in the tropics) make up important medicines, etc. You'd think that the tundra is useless, but without a certain biome or living species, life would not be the same. Everything on the Earth is interconnected, so preservation of nature is so important. That is why the tundra is globally important.

Answer 2

This biome is important because the tundra holds species that may can only be found only in the North or South Pole. Like maybe penguins or the polar bear. Even though that they could be found in captive in zoos, the animals would one day die or might be released. But because of global warming and the oil spills, native species of the tundra are being murdered, or being killed. Some animals, like the caribou, can swim really well, but they are not really able to swim to the other pole to survive. Oil spills can spread in the water where it could reach to plants and animals and could severly injure them, or could be fatal to them. Also, global warming (as you know) is warming up the world, and is melting up the glaciers and is flooding the planet. Some small islands, like Bora Bora that is by the Polynesian Triangle, is being flooded. So we need to help the biome be stable and so that no more species would be extinct, or be dead and never could be revived ever again.

Answer 3

it is important because there are a variety of animals and plants. The permafrost also shows the changes in climate and helps us track global warming.

Answer 4

its important because we need glaciiers and if it mealts the polar bears and other artic animals die out and beecom instice

Answer 5

whats so important about the tundra is that going to a polar tundra is very dangerous and deadly and that its a plain a treeless plain.

Answer 6

The tundra is home to a variety of plants and animals is reason enough to call the tundra important, but this region of the world has other characteristics vital to life as we know it....

Answer 7

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