Transcript of Arctic and Antarctic Poles Apart The Earth is shaped like a big ball, or sphere. Very top of the...
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- Arctic and Antarctic
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- Poles Apart The Earth is shaped like a big ball, or sphere.
Very top of the sphere The very top of the world is called the
North Pole. The area around it is the Arctic. The South Pole lies
at the bottom of the world, in a vast icy continent called
Antarctica.
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- Ice scapes Arctic The Arctic is a sheet of frozen sea with land
around the edges. Lots of native peoples have adapted to life in
the Arctic. Average Arctic summer +10C (+50F), average winter 34C
(- 30F) Antarctic The Antarctic is mostly land covered in ice.
Antarctica is covered in ice that never melts. In some places it is
4,000 m ( 13,ooo ft ) thick ! Average Antarctic summer -8C (-18F),
average winter -34C (- 30F)
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- Off The Scale
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- Many different people live in the far north of Canada, Europe,
and Russia, despite the cold. Inuit people of northern Canada
sometimes build snow shelters called igloos. Sami live in Lapland.
They travel long distances with their herds of reindeer. Chukchi
live in eastern Siberia. They use wooden boats covered in animal
skin to hunt sea mammals. Dolgan people from Siberia s Taymyr
Peninsula build houses on runners so they can move around. Nenets
people have lived in northern Siberia for more than 1,000 years.
Like the Sami,they keep herds of reindeer. Arctic people
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- Icy Facts In winter, ice on the polar seas can be thick enough
to land a plane on. Chunks of ice that break off float away as
icebergs. Icebergs can be almost 300 km ( 190 miles) long
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- Antarctic Animals. Penguins. Gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua
Chinstrap penguin Pygoscelis antarctica Adelie penguin Pygoscelis
adeliae King Penguins Aptenodytes patagonica Emperor penguins
Aptenodytes forsteri
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- Antarctic Animals. Seals. Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddelli
Southern Fur seal Arctocephalus gazella Southern Elephant seal
Mirounga leonina Crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus Leopard Seal
Hydruga leptonyx
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- Antarctic Animals. Whale species Krill - Euphausia superba
Wandering albatross Diomedea axulans Snow petrel Pagrodama nivea
Antarctic skua Catharacta maccormicki
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- Arctic Animals Arctic Fox - Vulpes lagopus Arctic Hare - Lepus
arcticus Arctic Wolf Caribou / Reindeer - Rangifer tarandus Moose -
Alces alces Ermine - Mustela erminea
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- Arctic Animals Lemming - Lemmus lemmus Polar Bear - Ursus
maritimus Snowy Owl - Bubo scandiacus Ribbon Seal - Histriophoca
fasciata Walrus - Odobenus rosmarus Narwhal - Monodon
monoceros