Arctic Spotlight
What Ocean Borders the Arctic Mainland?
The Arctic Ocean
Which Continent is found at the south pole?
Antarctica
What is frozen water called when it falls from the sky?
Snow
What flightless bird is found in Antarctica?
Penguins
Aurora Borealis/ Northern Lights
Polar Bear
What inhabitants live on Antarctica part time throughout the year?
Scientists/ Researchers
What is the term given to pieces of glaciers that break off into the ocean?
Icebergs
What tusked animal lives in the north pole?
Walrus
Which pole is actually just a large ice shelf, not a body of land?
North Pole
Which three continents border the Arctic ocean?
North America, Asia, Europe
What Bird is famously found in the South Pole?
Penguins
What are the name of the slow moving ice shelfs that are found at both poles?
Glaciers
Which arctic animal lives in the Arctic and hunts Seals?
Polar Bear
Which pole is colder?
South Pole (-117.0)
What is the name given to the treeless region that covers most of the Arctic?
Tundra
What small sea animal that is similar to shrimp, make up the base of the Antarctic food chain?
Which pole has more ice?
South Pole/ Antarctica
What single tusked animal lives in the Arctic ocean?
Narwhal
Which season do the poles both experience 24-hour light?
Summer
What phenomenon of Earth causes months of daylight and darkness that lasts full days?
Axis Tilt
What is the name of the most famous station researchers stay at within the south pole?
McMurdo Station
What is the name of the process given when ice shelfs and glacier melt?
Glacial Melt
What large mammal uses echolocation to hunt it's prey, which tends to be seals and smaller animals?
Orca/ Killer Whale
What type of scientist visits the poles most often?
Glaciologists