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= = =The Amazing Alpines =

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 * ==== An Alpine is a bone-chilling place where animals have to have warm fur! ====


 * ==== The mountains in the Himalayas stay snowy with an ice covering YEAR ROUND! ====

There's all different types of plants on the alpine mountains like the silky phacelia; it only grows in the mid summer, there is also a type of grass that grows way up there called Bear Grass, Bristlecone pines that grow in the cold area. Moss, campion pygmy bitterroot, even wild potatoes that grow in the alpines! A plant will grow called lichen that grows in the the alpines. And another one is a flower called the Snow Flower. These are amazing plants to survive the alpines its almost like they have invisible coat's because of how cold it is on the mountin! These plants adapted by the littlee bitty hairs that are on them!

Animals
There are animals that live in the Alpines. Here are some of the amazing animals that live here. There is a kind of Squirrel that lives in the Alpines that are called a Chickaree, mountain goats, Hoary marmot (below), a scruffy bird called Stellers jay, alpacas, Andean Condor, the chinchilla, llamas (above), the snow leopard, vicunas, and yaks. These animals adapted to the alpines by getting layers and layers of fur to keep them warm because the climate in the alpines is -12 degrees Celsius. Queitha: I think when people litter and one of these animals eat it it would hurt them and they help them by keeping them from going extincted!

Created by : Queitha Vecchio and Alyssa Allen 6th grade