ANIMALS
LAND
LOCATION
FAMOUS LANDFORMS
FUN GEOGRAPHY FACTS
100
There are 18 species of this animal, but only 4 live in Antarctica.
What is penguins?
100
There are many of these mountain-like landforms, but only one is active.
What is a volcano?
100
Which hemisphere is Antarctica?
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
100
Antarctica has this famous kind of desert that isn't very common.
What is a polar desert?
100
Antarctica is also known as the what?
South Pole
200
Most people think there would be this animal in Antarctica because it's cold, but it doesn't live here.
What is a polar bear?
200
The approximate area of Antarctica.
What is about 5,000,000?
200
Over 98% of this covers Antarctica.
What is ice?
200
The name of the largest ice shelf. The ice shelf is about as big as France!
What is the Ross ice shelf?
200
Coldest temperature: 1)-90.2 2)-135.8 3)-10.7
2
300
5 of 18 species of this animal lives in Antarctica.
What is a seal?
300
Very tall hills are in Antarctica.
What is mountains?
300
What ocean surrounds Antarctica?
What is the Southern/Antarctic/Austral Ocean?
300
A lake that isn't very common. It is in Mt Erebus.
What is a lava lake?
300
Hottest Temperature 1) 13.02 degrees 2) 78.1 degrees 3) 63.5 degrees
3
400
There are 3 endangered whales in Antarctica. Which of these is one of them? The beluga, narwhal, or the sei whale?
What is the sei whale?
400
There are little of these water landforms.
What are lakes, and rivers?
400
There aren't any of these. They are also called boundaries.
What are borders?
400
It's the saltiest waterbody on Earth with salt content exceeding 40%. It does not freeze over in harsh Antarctic winters
What is the Don Juan Pond?
400
How many species live in Antarctica? 1) 21 species 2) 68 species 3) 12 species
1
500
In Antarctica, many of this kind of bird are threatened.
What is an albatross?
500
Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by these.
What are mountains?
500
This one is set up differently than the rest. What is the highest point? What is the lowest point? 1) 4896 m 1) −2,657 m 2) 5043 m 2) −2,555 m 3) 4897 m 3) −3,113 m
3+2
500
This word means a group of islands
What is archipelago?
500
What is the thickest recorded slab of ice? 1) 5,684 feet 2) 10,000 ft 3) 8,188 feet
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