Polar Seas Notes Review

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Arctic

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(b) Both

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(c) Antarctic

• 6 months of daylight/darkness

• "Land of the Big Bear"

• Polar bears

• Slightly warmer

• Large, floating ice mass surrounded by land

• Animals need blubber to survive

• Important research stations

• Mostly barren

• Frozen land surrounded by water

• Record low -92*F

• Food chains depend on upwelling in summer months

• Some vegetation

• Aurora Australis

• Highest, driest, windiest, coldest place on Earth

• Aurora Borealis

• Red/white striped pole

• Record low -128*F

• Pinnipeds (seals/walruses)

• Penguins

• Mostly covered in ice

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organize these explorers into the right categories

Groups:

(a) North pole

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(b) South pole

• Robert Scott

• Roald Amundsen

• Captain Anderson

• Richard Byrd

• Robert Peary

What are caused by high energy particles from solar winds colliding with Earth's atmosphere?

• Volcanoes

• Auroras

• Tsunamis

• Asteroids

Soil that NEVER THAWS is called (a)   and it is found in​ the ​ (b)  

• Bedrock

• Lithosphere

• Permafrost
• Antarctic
• Arctic

Which of the following is NOT a BENEFIT of blubber?

• Stores/accumulates environmental toxins

• Insulation

• Buoyancy

• Food/energy reserve

Reorder the following from smallest to largest pinniped

• Seal

• Walrus

• Sea Lion

Penguins make up a large part of a polar bears natural diet

• True

• False