Plants & Animals
About 5 million of these animals live in Antarctica.
What are penguins?
Antarctica's ranking in size among all seven continents.
What is 5th?
About 97% of Antarctica is covered in this.
What is ice?
Location of the Scott-Amundson U.S. research station, also the southern most point of Earth.
What is the South Pole?
Something the treaty promises for scientists and researchers.
What is equal (and shared) access for all countries who have signed the treaty? Other answers from packet accepted.
Animals that migrate to Antarctica's waters in the summer.
What are blue whales?
Mount Erebus is this type of landform.
What is a volcano?
Ocean that surrounds Antarctica.
What is Southern?
Things that scientists in Antarctica research (list at least 2)
What are marine animals, the sky, the environment, glaciers, etc.?
An idea some believe would encourage tourism and fishing.
What is a World Park?
A type of bear that lives in the Arctic, NOT the Antarctic (because there are no bears in Antarctica).
What is a polar bear?
The only hemisphere that Antarctica is NOT located in.
What is Northern?
Antarctica has this type of climate, which is typically freezing.
What is polar?
The largest U.S. research station in Antarctica.
What is McMurdo?
Something the Antarctic Treaty banned.
What are territory claims or ownership and military activity?
Plant that covers hard surfaces, like rock, and grows slowly in Antarctica.
What is lichen?
Mountains that cross the center of Antarctica, dividing it into east and west.
What are Transantarctic mountains?
The peninsula of Antarctica and this continent are the closest.
What is South America?
A list of 3 jobs support people are needed for at research bases, besides scientists.
What are:
construction worker, chef, medical personnel, clothing sales, data collection, media, etc.
The number of years mining is banned in Antarctica?
What is 50?
The ecosystem that is unique in that the food chains are very short and often based on the availability of krill, which is vital for all animal life forms living in Antarctica.
What is the Antarctic Ecosystem?
Highest point in Antarctica.
What is Mount Vinson?
The names of the two seasons in Antarctica.
What are summer and winter?
When chunks of ice break off from glaciers.
What is calving?
The year the Antarctic Treaty was created.
What is 1959?