Antarctica’s Ecosystem:What Happens in the Arctic

Antarctica’s Ecosystem:What Happens in the Arctic
by Keana C.

Table of Contents 

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Page 5 Introduction

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Page 7 Climate

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Page 9 Animals

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Page 11 Plants

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Page 13 Landscape

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Page 15 Cited Sources

Do you know what happens in the arctic? There are all sorts of interesting facts about the arctic. Like there is plants, animals and climate.

Antarctica is one of the coldest continents.Soviet scientists at their Vostok Station recorded Antarctica’s lowest temperature(-128.6 fahrenheit). Violent winds, called katabatic winds, control Antarctica’s weather. The Arctic Tundra has the harshest climate of all. Antarctica is also a really cold place it is almost covered by ice and snow. The Arctic might be cold but it is a cool place too.

There are pretty cool animals too like Reindeer, polar bears, snowy owls, Beluga whales, Arctic foxes, walrus, albatross, orcas, emperor penguins, and the Weddell seal. A albatross is a bird, it eats fish and it can live up to 50 years. The orca is a mammal, it eats fish and other sea mammals and it can live up to 50-80 years. The emperor penguin is a bird, it eats fish and it can live up to 15-20 years. The Weddell seal is a mammal, it eats fish and sea creatures and can live up to 30 years.

There are pretty cool plants like willow trees, evergreens, poppies, saxifrages, avens, stonecrops, snowbells, and willowherbs. The flowers often  grow inside skulls or near bones. The seeds make the most of any animal corpse. Only in the summer time the plants grow in the arctic. The trees are rare in the arctic.

Some polar areas like Antarctica always have a layer of frost, called permafrost,below the soil. The ice shelf and coastal glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula are shrinking. Mountain glaciers in Antarctica go from the continent’s center feed into the ice shelves. The ocean around Antarctica is made by the southern parts of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. Now do you know what happens in the arctic?

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