Seals spend much of their time on or under the sea ice, and catch most of their food under water. Because of the earth's tilt and orbit around the sun, the poles receive less energy and heat from the sun. Wolves and cougars are traditional predators, or hunters, of white-tailed deer, which are herbivores. Autotrophs, organisms that produce their own food, are the first trophic level. to just eat one kind of food. Arctic tundra are found on high-latitude landmasses, above the Arctic Circlein Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, Iceland . their freezing temperature. There are no. or snow and ice fields is why do they go there in the first reindeer / caribou facts Basics.