Does Antarctica have tundra

Answer 1

Parts of it are tundra, but most of it is not.

Another Answer

Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet, and the soil under the ice is not available for anything tundra-like, to grow.

Tundra is defined by the occurrence of "vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs" -- and there is no such area on Antarctica. The Antarctic peninsula is home to two forms of grass that grow on the exposed western side of a few areas. The Sub-Antarctic Islands may hold a few areas of tunda-like soil, but there is no tundra on the Antarctic continent.

Answer 2

Most of Australia is either tropical or temperate. A tundra is the area between the treeline and the ice cap with permanently frozen subsoil. A tundra cannot exist in the Southern Hemisphere. The only ice cap in the southern hemisphere with permanently frozen subsoil is Antarctica, and Antarctica does not have a tree line.

Answer 3

It's too cold.

Characteristics of tundra include: "Extremely cold climate, low biotic diversity, simple vegetation structure, limitation of drainage, short season of growth and reproduction, energy and nutrients in the form of dead organic material, large population oscillations."*

Antarctica has extremely cold climate -- about 30 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the Arctic, no biotic diversity, no vegetation, areas of drainage, no growth and reproduction, no organic materials and no population.

*Thanks to the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Answer 4

because

australia: ooh so hot sun climate

but

for tundra u need: brrr super cold frozen ice

Answer 5

No. Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet.

Answer 6

If you believe that tundra is of two types: Arctic and Alpine, then, no. There is no tundra in Antarctica.

Answer 7

Tundra is not in the southern hemisphere

Answer 8

its too cold..... and dark