At the founding, America adopted the Western concepts of civil marriage and family, in which the mother played the primary role (shared with the father) in nurturing children, with the formation of character and moral values as essential objectives.
Tundra climate, major climate type of the KÃ¶ppen classification characterized by sub-freezing mean annual temperatures, large annual temperature ranges (but not as large as in the adjacent continental subarctic climate), and moderately low precipitation.
The tundra climate is midway between sub-arctic and ice cap climates. Tundra conditions exist throughout much of Greenland, in parts of Alaska, northern Canada and in northern Russia. Typically, a tundra will only exist between latitudes of 60 and 75 degrees North.he city of Nome, Alaska, is in a tundra environment. The city's annual precipitation is 18.4 inches per year. By contrast, Point Barrow, the northernmost United States city, has an annual precipitation of 4.3 inches.