Northern Vegetation

Drew Pettit, Joon Park, and

Atcha Totachawattana

•Vegetation close to ground

•Absorbs heat

•Bloom and mature quickly

•Small shrubs

•Mosses

•Lichens-cling to rocks

•Very limited vegetation

Vegetation

Tundra

•Most northern natural

vegetation

•Above tree line

•Cold and dry

•Short growing season

•Northern West Territories only

•Largest vegetation region in Canada

•Separated from Tundra by the tree-line

•Coniferous trees, evergreens

•Cold and short growing seasons

•Spruce, balsam fir, pine

Boreal and Taiga Forest

Northern Cordilleran Vegetation

•Yukon

•Variety from west to east

and mountain to valley

•Meadows of flowers,

shrubs

•Far north - no vegetation,

only rocks and ice

Permafrost•Active layer - top meter of the soil

•Surface is water

logged

•Little hummus

•Thin soil