What's Tundra?

[Superslogger]

I just found another new forum that wasn't there last week. GoXplore is branching out! So what is tundra?

[Marmot]

Sounds like a car, probabaly made by ford

[Flutterby]

No. not a car - frozen desert. Those areas of the world where the ground is permanently frozen so little or nothing will grow.

[Marmot]

when u say desert, is it actually sand, or would it be soil of a type?

[Jake D]

I think the best way to visualise tundra is to think of the great frozen wastes of northern asia such as Siberia.

[Hillwalker]

I thought it was a figure speech in Yorkshire, as in -

'I saw a dog asleep, it were tundra a table!'

[macgl78]

tundra means "treeless mountain tract" meaning an area where tree growth is hindered by low temp and short growing seasons. There is 3types of tundra antartic, artic and alpine.