Ice & Land
This frozen layer covers 98% of Antarctica.
What is the ice sheet?
This 1959 agreement bans military activity in Antarctica.
What is the Antarctic Treaty System?
Nickname for the Thwaites Glacier due to its threat to sea levels.
What is the "Doomsday Glacier"?
This country supplies 80% of Antarctic research stations' food.
What is Australia?
Coldest recorded temperature on Earth (-89.2°C) was at this station.
What is Vostok Station?
These mountains divide East and West Antarctica.
What are the Transantarctic Mountains?
The ozone hole was discovered above Antarctica in this year.
What is 1985?
The Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed in this year.
What is 2002?
Antarctic tourism grew from 8,000 to this many visitors by 2019.
What is 74,000?
Antarctic winds can reach this speed (km/h).
What is 320 km/h?
The only ice-free region in Antarctica, used to study Mars.
What are the Dry Valleys?
Ice cores from Antarctica reveal this many years of climate data.
What is 800,000 years?
Melting ice slows this critical ocean current.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The 2007 sinking of this ship raised concerns about tourism risks.
What is the MS Explorer?
Average winter temperature in Antarctica.
What is -50°C?
Antarctica holds this percentage of Earth's freshwater.
What is 70%?
Antarctica is the only continent without these. (Hint: Humans who live there permanently)
What are indigenous populations?
Krill decline in Antarctica threatens this animal the most.
What are whales?
These Polynesian navigators may have reached Antarctica before Europeans.
Who are the Māori?
Antarctica is technically classified as this type of climate.
What is a polar desert?
If all Antarctic ice melted, global sea levels would rise by this many meters.
What is 60 meters?
This many countries are part of the Antarctic Treaty.
What is 56?
1°C of global warming triples ice loss in this part of Antarctica.
What is West Antarctica?
Tourism brings this much money annually to Antarctica
What is 300 million?
The only continent with no reptiles or ants.
What is Antarctica?