Far in the north, on the edge of the great sea that surrounds the North Pole, there is a great, flat plain called the tundra. Most of the time, this plain is bare and frozen. For half the year, days there are nearly all dark and sunless.
In the spring, as the days grow longer, the tundra warms up and the ice melts. Water soaks into the ground. Plants burst into bloom! In summer, the tundra is a busy place. Little lemmings and other animals eat leaves, roots, and seeds. They, in turn, are hunted and eaten by animals such as foxes and wolves.
Winter comes suddenly and lasts a long time in the Arctic. The ground freezes. Snow piles up. Most of the animals leave but some stay. Lemmings burrow into the ground and live on seeds they have stored away. Herds of musk oxen move from place to place, scraping with their hoofs to find food beneath the snow.
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