Plants & Animals
About 5 million of these animals live in Antarctica.
What are penguins?
5th out of 7
What is Antarctica's ranking amongst the size of continents?
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.
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?
Marine biology, astronomy, oceanography, glaciography just to name a few.
What are topics researched in Antarctica?
An idea some believe would encourage tourism and fishing.
What is a World Park?
A type of bear that does NOT live 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?
The two options or seasons which scientists choose to study.
What are summer or year-round?
The year the Antarctic Treaty was signed.
What is 1959?
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?
September to March
What is calving?
What are 12 countries?