Unit 1: Antarctica
Antarctica is another name for the South Pole. It is also another continent. A long time ago, the pole was close to the equator. That was 500 million years ago. It was once joined to Australia; then all the land on earth started to move. Antarctica moved away from Australia and went south. Dinosaur’s bones were once found at the South Pole. Do you know why? Dinosaurs lived there millions of years ago. This was before it moved away from the equator. About 98% of this continent is frozen. The rest is made up of rock. The South Pole has 87% of the world’s ice. But did you know that it gets very little snow? Only about two inches of snow fall each year. How many people live in your continent? No one lives in the South Pole; only
Swimming to Antarctica is a story about how Lynne Cox attempt to complete the grueling swim. Lynne’s goal to finish the swim is motivated by her effort, determination and bravery. Can Lynne overcome her difficulties and finish the swim, or will she let it all slip away?
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and most inhospitable continent on Earth. Yet it is yields some 90 percent of the Earth most precious natural resource: water. But behind this pristine exterior, Antarctica is fighting a losing battle. New data suggests that the continent as a whole is warming at an alarming rate. According to recent studies gathered from Nature Magazine, the western half of the continent is warming five times faster than any other place
Antarctica is The world's fifth-largest continent,The landmass is made up of 98 percent ice and 2 percent rock holds the distinction of being the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest continent. Antarctica takes up about 5.4 million square mi. The icy plains highest point is Vinson Massif at 16,066 ft and lowest point is the Bentley Trench at −8,382 ft.
Antarctica is mostly being used for research by geologists (to see how Antarctica was once joined to the other continents
Antarctica has one of the only two polar ice caps on the planet Earth. It is called the Antarctic ice sheet and it covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent. Wikipedia says this is the largest ice mass on Earth; it covers about 5.4 million square miles, and is
Ice Mountain is a place of beauty and rarity. All four of the systems of the earth, the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere, helped to contribute to make Ice Mountain the rare astounding piece of our collective geoheritage that it has become. Ice Mountain’s creation and uses helps make it one of the most interesting and important mountains in West Virginia that has been impacted by many earth systems throughout history. Ice Mountain is very important to the biosphere. It provides habitats for breeding warblers, thrushers, vireos, as well as several other important types of birds. It also carries several species of arboreal plants from starflowers to hemlocks. Eastern hemlocks help to cool the ice vents, which help to cool the mountain and give it its name of Ice Mountain.
Throughout history, Arctic Ocean has been explored by many nations that put its attention to discover the particular unknown areas. The first explorations of the Arctic started on 330 BC by European marine explorer named Pytheas of Massalia. Pytheas was the first person that recorded the existence of Polar Ice . Since the 12th century, with the increasing of the population and the increment of trade-related activities, commercial routes have had a growing importance and the overseas search for alternative routes has become crucial . On 1594-1960,the driving force for the exploration of the Arctic was the desire of European monarchs to find an alternate route to India and China, either a Northwest Passage along the coast of North America or
Scientists learned that in Antarctica there were plants, animals, and coal that could not have happened/ thrived in present-day Antarctica. This information lead me to believe that Antarctica might have been located somewhere else on earth that was warmer. So accordingly to this data, I placed Antarctica more north than it is present
The Antarctic Preservation Society (“APS”) must have ‘standing’, or locus standi, in order to seek judicial review of the decision to grant David Walsh authorisation and a permit to collect and remove the meteorite of Australian Antarctic Territory. REVIEW UNDER s28?
This essay will seek to find out the geological composition of the Antarctica. The study will show the rock composition, fossils and finally the mountains. Each paragraph will be broken down into subtopics rocks, fossils, and mountains. The following research question will guide this essay. I will also explain what some of the fossils that were found in the continent of Antarctica.
different stations in Antarctica and 23 different countries each have stations.McMurdo is the largest station and is owned by the U.S. It has 1,200 scientists, pilots, and other specialist in the summer and 250 in the winter. McMurdo has docks, runways and helicopter pads. Antarctica is bigger than Europe and Australia in area but without its ice caps it is the smallest continent. The scientist say that the huts in Antarctica have improved a lot since before they rebuilt most of the huts. That is what the environment and population of Antarctica is.
Well, we cannot use a stocking to hold Antarctica. However, we need to follow Emma Kunz’s suggestion. We can put a ‘substitute for Antarctica’ on an energy plate to hold the continent steady so it will not break up. And, we can put a cover strapped across the top of the substitute continent so it will not move.
First,Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. Obviously,everybody knows this,but did you know that Antarctica being the coldest place is a good thing. If you’d think about it if Antarctica were to be melted away right now, Antarctic fauna and flora would die out. Sea levels across the entire world would increase. Since sea levels increase, it will affect other major ecosystems and even civilization.That’s why Antarctica is important. It took the Earth billions of years to form stable biomes today,and if said biomes were to lose its stability it would cause global chaos. This all relates to my main point which is human interaction should be banned and prohibited from Antarctica. Humans are too detrimental to Antarctica,and their previous
Since many of have already discussed rift valley characteristics, I’ll talk about the lesser known West Antarctic Rift. This rift valley lies between East and West Antarctica. It is difficult to study the West Antarctic Rift because it lies beneath the over 2 kilometers thick Antarctic Ice Sheet. This rift developed due to lithospheric thinning of the non-cratonic area of West Antarctica. The West Antarctic Rift is the source of all the recently active volcanoes within Antarctica and most of the major Antarctic mountain systems outside the Antarctic Peninsula. The rift influences ice flows in West Antarctica due to fast moving ice streams influenced by the lubrication from water-saturated till.
A helicopter pilot from Canada died after a 65 ft fall into an icy Antarctica crevasse near Davis base of Australia on Monday.