Antarctica
The percentage of Antarctica covered in ice?
What is 98%
The percentage of Earth's surface covered by oceans?
What is 70%
The primary driver of ocean tides?
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
The submerged, shallow extension of a continent's landmass.
What is the Continental Shelf?
Some key goals of the Antarctic Treaty.
What is sceintific discovery, and cooperation?
The average temperture range of Antarctica
What is 32 Fahrenheit to -70 Fahrenheit
The largest Ocean.
What is the Pacific?
The three factors that determine ocean wave characteristics?
What is Duration, Distance and Speed?
The ocean that surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern ocean?
One item that the Antarctic Treaty forbids.
What is military activities?
What is Antarctica's rank by size of all the continents.
What is 5th?
The 5 Oceans of the world.
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic?
The two types of ocean currents.
Half
The year the Antarctic Treaty signed?
What is 1959?
Scientific research and environmental study
What is the primary focus of researchers in Antarctica?
What is the Atlantic?
A community of living organisms interacting with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Primary source of ocean pollution
What is land sources washed or blown into the ocean?
Zero
The amount of permanent human inhabitants of Antarctica?
Is mining expeditions or oil drilling allowed in Antarctica?
No, due to the Antarctic Treaty
The smallest ocean.
Warmer water tend to rise to the top of the ocean.
Why is because its lighter and less dense?
What is long term?
Define Desert.
What is a geographical area that receives very little precipitation?