Landforms

This is a picture of a coast line of an island in the Northern Arctic. It's a large ice cliff.

This is a photo of the tundra and rolling plains. The ground is frozen at this time.

Landforms in the Northern Arctic Ecozone

Most of the Northern Arctic, is just rolling plains, that is mainly covered with the glaciers left overs, which mainly contains rock particles, and soil etc. The soil in this region, is permafrost, meaning that it is frozen for the most part of the year, and does not fully thaw in the summer. There is lots of shattered limestone and shattered sandstone that spans across hundreds if not thousands of square kilometres

Large plateaus are common within the interior of this region. There are often crackers and deep cuts in the land where streams have cut through the lands layers of rock and soil. On many islands in the Northern Atlantic Ecozone, the coastlines are just extremely tall cliffs, where the sides just drop into the water like a large blade of ice, due to warmer temperatures. These kind of cliffs provide a good habitat for seabirds, like the Northern Fulmars for example

The Northern Arctic Ecozone, has it's own unique character, because it's like a prairie in the Arctic. It has many wide flat plains in the interior of the region. Many of the coastal plains were once located beneath the sea, because the glacial ice pushed them down; but over the few thousands of years, they have rebounded.

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