Geographical features
A large tall mass of ice floating in the ocean.
What is an iceberg?
A very heavy snowstorm.
What is a blizzard
An animal with a rounded body and flat legs called flippers that lives on ice, on land or in the water.
What is a seal?
A place providing supplies, shelter, and communications for persons engaged in wide-ranging activities, as for example exploring.
What is a base camp?
The gradual rise in the earth's temperature.
What is global warming?
A row of high mountain summits, a linear sequence of interconnected or related mountains.
What is a mountain chain?
Skin damage from extreme cold.
What is a frostbite?
A large black-and-white whale that eats fish and seals.
What is an Orca (Killer whale)?
A place where scientists live and work in Antarctica.
What is a research station?
When melting ice causes the ocean to get higher.
What are rising sea levels?
A very large mass of ice and snow that moves slowly outward from the center.
What is a glacier?
A pile of snow made by the wind.
What is snowdrift?
Small shrimp-like creatures that are food for many Antarctic animals.
What is krill?
A journey to explore a place.
What is an expedition?
A gas that causes global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
A large, flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
A weather condition when snow and clouds make it hard to see.
What is a whiteout?
A very small soft green plant which grows on damp soil, or on wood or stone.
What is moss?
A cylinder of ice drilled from a glacier to study climate history.
What is an ice core?
The way in which certain gases trap the heat from the sun in the atmosphere?
What is the greenhouse effect?
A flat piece of floating ice.
What is an ice floe
The Southern Lights, colorful lights in the sky.
What is Aurora Australis?
A group of tiny plants that looks like moss and grows on the surface of rocks, trees, walls etc.
What is lichen?
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
Using resources in a way that protects the environment.
What is sustainability?