similarities between the people in desert regions and people in tundra regions?
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They are largely nomadic and have to adapt to meet their harsh environment. They are often herders whether it is reindeer or camels.
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Climate may be a factor in the success of a country.  The mid-latitudes tend to have moderate temperatures and well defined growing seasons thus allowing for good agriculture and  livestock conditions.  These provide a reliable food source which can support a larger population.\n\nNorthern and Southern latitudes have very long and cold winters which are not conducive to agriculture although there are some livestock that can handle these conditions (carribou, yaks, etc.)  Converely, the more equatorial latitudes have high temperatures.  Depending on the humidity of the region, this can lead to either desert or jungle conditions.  Deserts are very difficult to grow in due to lack of moisture whereas with jungles, controlling the natural vegetation and keeping it from invading agriculture fields is a near impossible task.  In addition, the tropics have many diseases the thrive in that environment leading to a higher mortality rate.
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In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term "tundra" comes from Kildin Sami tū̄ndra, the genitive of tundar, "treeless plain", or according to some, comes from the Finnish word "tunturia", also meaning "treeless plain".\n\nThere are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and alpine tundra. In all of these types, the dominant vegetation is grasses, mosses, and lichens.\n\nTrees grow in some of the tundra. The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree-line or timberline.
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Mountains, plateau, deserts
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The Arctic and Antarctic are literally poles apart. While they share some characteristics, such as high latitude, cold and remoteness, they also exhibit significant differences. The Arctic is dominated by a large deep central ocean surrounded by land masses. The Antarctic is a large, partially ice-covered land mass surrounded by ocean. \n\nEnvironmental Differences: \nThe Arctic has trees but Antarctic does not\nAntarctica is a continent land mass but the Arctic is a sea with edges of other countries in the Arctic circle.. \nThe Arctic has indigenous people and the Antarctic doesn't. \nThe Arctic has tundra but not the Antarctic\n\nWeather differences: \nAntarctic has strong winds but the Arctic has mild winds. \nAntarctica is colder and windier than the Arctic\n\nAnimal and Plant Life differences: \nThe Arctic has polar bears and the Antarctic does not. \nThe Antarctic has penguins and the Arctic doesn't. \nThe Antarctic has no trees. \nThe Arctic has Tundra with rich plant life in Spring and Summer. \nAntarctic has algae but not the Arctic. \nAntarctica has mainly calm animals but the Arctic has some fierce ones\n\n\nHuman Activity Differences: \nThe Arctic has Eskimos and Antarctica does not. \nThe Arctic has igloos and Antarctica does not. \nLong ago, Laps and Eskimos used the northern polar region but nobody lived in the southern polar region. \nThere are towns in the Arctic but not in Antarctica - just research bases. \nAntarctica wasn`t found for a long time when the Arctic was already found. \nWhen the sea is free from the ice in summer in the Arctic the hunter goes after seals.
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Most likely no.  On both continental groups Eurasia/Afica nad the Americas there were many similarities in technology and scientific process.  This jsut shows that if we as humans really need (or want) something, that we will find a way to get it.  Every great ancient culture was great because they tackled the problems that everyone needed solved.  Writing happened on both continental groups becaus a need to archive history in a condensed form, the same way as the compess, boat and agriculture developed, out of a universla need.
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Possibly the Clovis as you read on......\nStone-age people lived in the lands north of the Arctic Circle before the peak of the last Ice Age - much earlier than had been thought, suggests new findings.\n\nThe discovery of the site in eastern Siberia also hints that people might have moved from the Old World into the Americas at a much earlier date than believed.\n\nThe site along the Yanu River, carbon-dated as 30,000 years old, is twice the age of the oldest previously known Arctic settlement, report Vladimir Pitulko of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and colleagues.\n\nThe area is about 2000 kilometres from the Bering Strait. This is important as archaeologists have long suspected that some of the earliest Americans may have crossed the Bering land bridge from northeastern Asia. However, scientists had little evidence of Arctic settlements in Asia older than 14,000 years - the age of the earliest Alaskan sites. The age of the Yanu River site shows that people learned to live in the Arctic much earlier, and might have reached Alaska earlier than has been recognised.\n\n"Pitulko's find is exciting because it shows that people were living in an ecosystem that stretched continuously between Asia and North America. If they had wandered a little further eastward...bingo - they could have been the first Americans," Daniel Mann of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks told New Scientist.\n\nReindeer bones\nRussian geologist Mikhail Dashtzeren found a rhino-horn foreshaft of a spear along the river in 1993. A foreshaft is the detachable piece between the main part of a spear and its point. Dashtzeren guided archaeologists to the site in 2001. Pitulko's team found 383 stone artefacts in the area, as well as many bones from ice-age Siberian animals including mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhino and bison.\n\nThe ancient site would have been an open meadow in the river's flood plain when occupied. It is unclear if people lived in the area all year, or only came north in summer to hunt. The abundance of reindeer bones indicates they were the most common food.\n\nThe flaked stone tools resemble those from more southerly sites at the time. However, the rhino-horn foreshaft, and two similar ones of mammoth ivory, resemble tools used by the Clovis people who spread over North America about 12,000 years ago and are believed to be among the continent's first human settlers.\n\nBut archaeologists are wary about linking the two. "It's a fabulous site," David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, told New Scientist. The dates look solid, and "it's tells us that people were in the far north a whole lot earlier than we ever thought."\n\nBut he cautions the new settlement and those of the Clovis are separated by 16,000 years and thousands of kilometres.\n\nJournal reference: Science (vol 303, p 52)
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mongolia, northen part of canada and russia
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What people of what plains?
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Human geography deals with people and how they interact with their surrounding environment.
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taiga is the northern forests, tundra is the permafrost zone in the north
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deserts exists in almost all types of altitudes. it is caused due to lack of water and abudance of sand. so i would say the average would be the mid point between below sea level and mountanous level(5000 mts)...that would be about 2500 or less mts
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Antarctica is a desert.  It is what is known as a cold desert, which is probably why you find that it is not classified along with hot deserts like the Sahara.  A hot desert is defined by geographers as a region where the rate of evaporation exceeds precipitation, and where precipitation is below 254 mm per year.  In a cold desert, by contrast, there is little evaporation, so low \nprecipitation alone determines its status as a desert.\n\nIn Antarctica precipitation is less in the interior of the continent than along the coasts.  The reason is that coastal areas are more open to the influence of cyclones.  In the interior of Antarctica precipitation is as low as 50 mm per year, while in coastal regions it can be as high as 250 \nmm per year.  Thus even coastal precipitation is usually within the range that we would consider to be a desert.  The entire continent is, therefore, a vast cold desert.  It is, larger than the Sahara (Antarctica is about 14.2 million square kilometers in size, and the Sahara is just over 9 million square kilometers).  \n\nAntarctica is clearly the largest desert on Earth.  The reason you do not often see it listed along with hot deserts \nis mainly just that people think of deserts as hot.
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actually they don't look similar, it's just that you/we can't distinguish them from one to the other. The same thing happens when a mongolian (who is not familiar with caucassians) sees a bunch of white people... they look all the same!!
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Desert - very dry, either hot or cold \nTundra - cool, treeless, and dry \nChaparral or scrub - coastal area with hot, dry summers and mild, cool, rainy winters \nTaiga or Coniferous Forest - cool and dry, with coniferous trees \nTemperate Deciduous Forest - cool and rainy, with deciduous trees \nGrassland - Windy, partly dry sea of grass with few trees, including tropical savanna, prairie, steppe, pampas, etc. \nMountina biomes: there are a lot of different biomes that exist on a mountains, from grasslands at low altitudes, taiga (coniferous forests) below the treeline, and alpine (the same as tundra) \nTemperate Rain Forest - cool and wet \nTropical Rain Forest - warm and very wet \nLand Caves - cool and dark \nWetlands - there are many types of wetlands, including swamps, marshes, moors, bogs, fens, sloughs, etc. \nFreshwater Marsh - a wetland located near creeks, streams, rivers and lakes \nTemperate ponds
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The word tundra derives from the Finnish word for barren or treeless land. The tundra is the simplest biome in terms of species composition and food chains.
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hmm i would say it will definitely be the yaks. \nyaks are very incredible animals which are very vesatile. they can easilt adapt to any environments but wilds yaks are usually found at the himalayan mountains. but now they are able to live even where the temperatures are not very low. even now there are yaks that are domestic and are breeded by people and even used to plough the fields! incredible isn't it? and another thing, the milk from the yaks is pink! haha  =D