05-High+Latitude+Climate+Zones


 * Cold and snowy
 * Permafrost
 * Includes Ice Cap, Subarctic and Tundra climate
 * Vegetation in high latitude climates includes tundra grasses and bushes, subarctic evergreen forects, and ice cap lichens. Tall trees, evergreens
 * Location: from 66.5 N to the North Pole and 66.5S to the South Pole

SUBARCTIC CLIMATE -
 * Temps do rise above freezing during the summer.
 * Taiga - huge evergreen forests (especially in Russia)
 * Few people live here
 * Bitter winters

TUNDRA CLIMATE -
 * Vast, rolling plains without trees.
 * Permafrost. - only top few inches thaw out in summer
 * Harsh and dry.
 * Sturdy grass and low growing berry bushes can be found in the tundra.

ICE CAP:
 * Bitterly cold.
 * Although no vegetaion grows here, lichens - or fungus-like plants and mosses - can live on rocks.
 * Located in Greenland and Antarctica
 * monthly temperatures average below freezing