The Arctic
This northern ocean is well known for being frozen.
What is the Arctic ocean?
This land mass is considered the seventh continent in the world.
What is Antarctica?
This bird swims to hunt and is best known for its sequence of journeys between feeding and breeding.
What are penguins?
This edible berry plant is one of the few woody plants that can grow in the Arctic.
What is the Alpine Berry or Bearberry shrub?
This arctic bird is featured in Harry Potter as his pet.
What is a snowy owl?
A) A Passage
B) Trade
C) Seals
A) A Passage
This type of penguin lives in Antarctica, and its name makes it royalty.
What is the Emperor Penguin?
This mammal can cover up to 40 miles a day while searching for food, and can only have up to 2 babies.
What are polar bears?
This plant reproduces by spores and grow on the bottoms of lakes and bogs. It also never produces a flower, but it makes thousands of leaves per stem.
What is Arctic moss?
This is the number of icebergs Greenland produces each year. (HINT: It's a 5-digit number).
What is 10,000?
While the Arctic's surface soils thaw in the summer, its lower layers remain in this frozen state.
What are is permafrost?
This percentage of the world's ice is located in Antarctica:
A) 100 %
B) 80 %
C) 90 %
D) 50 %
This mammal is the largest member of the dolphin family, and is known to live up to 90 years.
What is an orca?
This plant forms clumps on the ground, and in late summer its flowers turn into tufts that look like cotton.
What is cotton sedge?
This is considered the first organism.
What is the lichen?
These floating objects can weigh up to 56 pounds for 1 cubic foot.
What are icebergs?
Antarctica is inhabited by these types of people.
Who are scientists?
These animals are born reddish-brown but turn white in adulthood. They also have 20 teeth in both their upper and lower jaws.
What are beluga whales?
A member of the rose family, this plant has nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which helps in poor nutrient soil.
When this melts it leaves a hollow that is filled with water and can be the size of a lake.
What is a pingo?
This algae is one of the few things that can thrive in the Arctics' temperatures and can grow in sheltered places on bare rocks and provide food for moss.
What are lichens?
Antarctica is considered the world largest one of these
What is a desert?
This flippered mammal can grow up to 11 feet in length and weigh up to 4,400 pounds.
What is a walrus?
This plant produces long red stems called runners which creep along the group. Also known as the mother of thousands.
What are spider plants?
Can bees survive in the Arctic?
Yes. The small fur on their bodies help to keep them warm.