Arctic Explorers
Conservation of the Environment
In the Footsteps of Scott
Robert Swan
The South Pole
100
A person from the country Norway.
What is a Norwegian?
100
The area surrounding where we live.
What is the environment?
100
The ship used for Swan's expedition to the South Pole.
What is the Southern Quest?
100
Swan loved to study this in school.
What is Ancient History?
100
A very strong wind.
What is a gale?
200
The explorer who walked to the South Pole, only to die there, in 1912.
Who was Robert Scott?
200
Taking care of something, so that it lasts.
What is conservation.
200
Oceans that are hard to travel in because of ice and winds.
What is treacherous?
200
Age Robert Swan decided to go to the South Pole.
What is 21?
200
Windblown waves in the snow.
What is sastrugi?
300
The Norwegian explorer who was first to reach the South Pole.
Who was Roald Amundsen?
300
Species of plants and animals that are in danger of going away forever.
What is endangered?
300
The time it took to refurbish the Southern Quest.
What is nine months?
300
The time Robert Swan worked for the British Antarctic Survey.
What is a year and a half?
300
A certain kind of structure capped the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
What is a geodesic dome?
400
The three men who successfully walked to the South Pole in 1986.
Who were Roger Mear, Gareth Wood, and Robert Swan?
400

British

What nationality is Robert Swan?
400
The date and time the Southern Quest left on its journey.
What is November 10, 9 am, 1984?
400
The sleep pattern he chose, while waiting nine months.
What are cat naps?
400
The time Swan's party arrived at the South Pole.
What is eleven fifty-three at night?
500

The person whose ad Swan copied when planning his expedition 

Who is Ernest Shakleton?

500

Dirt and chemicals in our air.

What is pollution?

500
The size of the hut Swan's expedition lived in for nine months.
What is 16 by 24 feet?
500
He fell behind every day. By the 25th day he was a mile behind. Roger discovered the problem.
What are runners on backward?
500
A quote from the movie "Scott of the Antarctic"
What is "Barrier done. Glacier done. Plateau ahead." ?
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