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Arctic fox

Arctic hare

Beluga whale

Caribou

Elk

Lemming

Polar bear

Pika

Marmot

Muskox

Reindeer

Snowy owl

Walrus

Animals you’ll find in Antarctica include:

Albatross

Krill (food for sea animals)

Orca

Penguins

Seals

Insects in the Arctic habitat include:

Arctic bumble bees

Flies

Grasshoppers

Mosquitoes

Moths

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We would like to thank our Science teacher Deepika maam for presenting us with this learning opportunity.

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Climate of the polar regions  by vaanya pathak 

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Climate of the polar regions  by vaanya pathak 

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The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers. Every month in a polar climate has an average temperature of less than 10 °C (50 °F). ... A polar climate consists of cool summers and very cold winters, which results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or a permanent or semi-permanent layer of ice.

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By Anhad Singh Grewal
Picture courtesy Aaina Chadha
Mountains make up about one-fifth of the world's landscape, and provide homes to at least one-tenth of the world's people. Heights of mountains are generally given as heights above sea level. The world's highest peak on land is Mount Everest in the Himalayas. It is 8,850.1728 m (29,036 ft) tall.

Mountain habitats have been largely protected because of their inaccessibility. As people have moved into the mountains to live, for recreation and to obtain valuable resources such as timber, mountain ecosystems around the world have been subject to degradation and destruction.

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By Anhad Singh Grewal
Grizzly bears and hoary marmots living in the mountains of North America survive the cold winters by hibernating—hiding out in dens and resting—to conserve energy when food is hard to find. When grizzly bears hibernate, their body temperature drops by about 12 degrees, and they take a breath only once about every 45 seconds. Other animals, like mountain goats and ibexes living in Europe's Alps, migrate to lower, warmer elevations during the winter. These animals have tough but flexible hooves to steady themselves when climbing up and down the rocky terrain looking for food.

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BIRD POOP HELPS KEEP THE AREA COOl

IT’S HOME TO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST, MOST SECURE SEED STORAGE FACILITY.

THE FIRST MAN TO REACH THE NORTH POLE "ROBERT PREARY" WAS OVERLOOKED FOR DECADES.

Temperatures as low as –70°C have been recorded in northern Greenland.

In 1958, a submarine called the USS Nautilus sailed beneath the frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean. This was proof that the enormous ice sheet rests on water and not land.

The ice of the Arctic contains around ten percent of the world’s fresh water. This giant, white, frozen reservoir reflects sunlight, helping keep the region cool. It also plays a super-important role in keeping our global climate stable.

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Low Growth
Trees begin to thin as you travel higher in the mountain biome. The area at which trees cease to grow in the mountain range is known as the timberline. Plants that can survive above 3,000 feet include sparse grasses and alpine perennials, which have adapted to extreme cold and heat, strong sun, heavy winds and fluctuations between arid and damp condition.

Food, Moisture and Energy Storage

Spring and summer in the mountains is a very short period, between late June and September, after which frosts begin and mountain ranges are covered with snow. For this reason, plants have adapted to store food, moisture and energy. Plants at higher elevations have stems or rhizomes which extend deep beneath the soil’s surface. These stems allow food storage so plants can begin immediate growth in the spring, without having to wait for the soil to thaw to provide water and nutrients.
Picture courtesy Aaina Chadha

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The credit for making this padlet goes to:
Anhad- Mountain info, types of animals found there and their adaptations.
Aaina- photos for Mountains
Gitansh- animals found in artic info and fun facts.
Jordan-Antarctica info and animals found in antarctica and adaptation of animals in polar regions and padlet formatting.
Karam-Title, Polar regions short info, adaptation of plants in mountains.
Vaanya- photos for Polar regions,climate of polar regions

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Most of the small plants and thick-haired animals, such as musk ox, in the region live on this land. ... Animals as large as whales and polar bears come to feed on them. In winter, when more of the ocean freezes over and thick snow covers the land, animals and plants have adapted to keep warm and survive.
The North Pole is in the middle of the Arctic Ocean which is surrounded by the land masses of North America, Europe and Asia so there is a land connection to the south meaning that land animals can more easily reach the Arctic unlike Antarctica where animals must be able to swim or fly across hundreds of miles of frigid and storm-prone ocean even at the narrowest point.

ARCTIC FOX
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.[1][7][8] It is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as camouflage. It has a large and very fluffy tail. In the wild, most individuals do not live past their first year but some exceptional ones survive up to 11 years.[9] Its body length ranges from 46 to 68 cm (18 to 27 in), with a generally rounded body shape to minimize the escape of body heat.

The Arctic fox preys on many small creatures such as lemmings, voles, ringed seal pups, fish, waterfowl, and seabirds. It also eats carrion, berries, seaweed, and insects and other small invertebrates. Arctic foxes form monogamous pairs during the breeding season and they stay together to raise their young in complex underground dens. Occasionally, other family members may assist in raising their young. Natural predators of the Arctic fox are golden eagles,[10] polar bears,[11] wolverines, red foxes, wolves, and grizzly bears.

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The polar regions, also called the frigid  zones, of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles. These high latitudes are dominated by floating sea ice covering much of the Arctic ocean in the north, and by the Antarctic ice sheet on the continent of Antarctica in the South.The Earth's polar regions (the Arctic in the north and the Antarctica in the south)are extremely cold.The lowest temperature recorded ever in the Antarctica is -88 C.

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1. Mountains make up about one-fifth of the world's landscape, and provide homes to at least one-tenth of the world's people.
2. There are mountains under the surface of the sea!
3. About 80 per cent of our planet's fresh water originates in the mountains.
4. The highest 14 mountains in the world are all found in the Himalayas
5. The highest mountain in the known universe is Olympus Mons, a giant volcano on Mars, almost three times the height of Mount Everest.

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Definitions-
. The Antarctic is usually defined as south of 60° south latitude, or the continent of Antarctica. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty uses the former definition.

The two polar regions are distinguished from the other two climatic and biomatic belts of Earth, a tropics belt near the equator, and two middle latitude regions located between the tropics and polar regions.

Climate-

Polar regions receive less intense solar radiation than the other parts of Earth because the sun's energy arrives at an oblique angle, spreading over a larger area, and also travels a longer distance through the Earth's atmosphere in which it may be absorbed, scattered or reflected, which is the same thing that causes winters to be colder than the rest of the year in temperate areas.

The axial tilt of the Earth has a major effect on climate of the polar regions. However, since the polar regions are the farthest from the equator, they receive the weakest solar radiation and are therefore generally frigid year round due to the earth's axial tilt of 23.5° not being enough to create a high maximum midday declination to sufficiently strengthen the sun's rays even in summer, except for relatively brief periods in peripheral areas near the polar circles. The large amount of ice and snow also reflects a large part of what weak sunlight the Polar regions receive, contributing to the cold. Polar regions are characterized by extremely cold temperatures, heavy glaciation wherever there is sufficient precipitation to form permanent ice, and extreme variations in daylight hours, with twenty-four hours of daylight in summer, and complete darkness at mid-winter.

See also: Antarctica

The southern polar region has no permanent human habitation.[1] McMurdo Station is the largest research station in Antarctica, run by the United States. Other notable stations include Palmer Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station (United States), Esperanza Base and Marambio Base (Argentina), Scott Base (New Zealand), and Vostok Station (Russia).

While there are no indigenous human cultures, there is a complex ecosystem, especially along Antarctica's coastal zones. Coastal upwelling provides abundant nutrients which feeds krill, a type of marine crustacea, which in turn feeds a complex of living creatures from penguins to blue whales.

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Antarctica is a cold Continent on the South pole. It is very hard for humans to stay here even for a short time but Polar Bears have adapted to live here.
Polar Bears- These are the predators of the south .Here are a list of their adaptations:
1. They have a white fur that works as a camouflage.
2  Small ears, tail to minimize heat loss.
3. Padded feat so they can walk on snow.
4. Thick fur and blubber to protect them from cold temperatures.

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Good Morning! Today we are going to learn about Polar regions and Mountains.

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Good Morning! Today we are going to learn about Polar regions and Mountains.

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Enjoy!
Picture courtesy Vaanya Pathak

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Types of animals found in mountains

Very few species are able to live on mountains; the climate on a mountain is typically cold and windy, and because the air pressure is lower at high altitudes, there is less oxygen available.

Animals that live on mountains are:

* Bighorn Sheep

* Golden Eagle

* L’Hoest’s Monkey

* Mountain Goat

* Mountain Gorilla

* Mountain Hare

* Snow Leopard

* Takin

* Verreaux’s Eagle

* Vicuña

* White-Tailed Ptarmigan

* Wolf
Picture courtesy Karam Khokhar