Coldam I?

Where
environments
 DO NOW! Arctic or Antarctica?

A B

C D
 Cold Environments
LO: To differentiate the characteristics of different cold environments

Starter: Use an atlas to locate and describe both places

Arctic

Compass/Latitude-longitude/Oceans-Seas-Lakes/Continents/Countries
 The Big Picture
• Cold environments experience temperatures that are
at or below 0oC for long periods of time

• Coldest temperature ever recorded was -93OC

• Antarctica stores 70% of the world’s fresh water

• Melting of the Arctic would have less impact on

global (eustatic) sea level change compared to
Antarctica
 How do you define a “cold environment”

• Cold environments experience…

Cold environments experience temperatures

that are at or below zero degrees Celsius for
long periods of time
 Compare/Contrast the
Task: What are the key differences between the information below?
Information
Challenge: Use the information sheet to add at least three more differences
Complete ‘8 Way Thinking’ for the images

hostile | exhilarating | freezing

Discovering
Antarctica
Using all that you have learnt and answer the question below:

Describe the challenges faced by people residing

in the Arctic and/or Antarctica [3 marks]
 H/W: Spitzbergen is in Svalbard

• Calculate the avg temp for each month

• What is the yearly average rainfall?
• Produce a labelled climate graph for
Spitzbergen
• Describe the climate of Spitzbergen using data
Discovering The Ice Breaker
Antarctica
Plenary: Get into groups of
4 and take the quiz to see
how much you already
know about Antarctica
Discovering Ice Breaker
Antarctica answers...
What is Antarctica?
a)
A.
A Continent
b) Antarctica
A Country
c) An iceberg
d)
is the
A cold drink
fifth
largest
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Antarctica
The numberA.one
Killer
predator in
Antarctica's water’s
whales is: on
feed
a) The killer whale
seals, penguins
b) The Blue Whale
and other
c) The bottlenose whale
d) Jaws
creatures and
are at the top
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Antarctica
At what time does
D. It it go dark
doesn’t
on Christmas Day?
really go dark in
a) 7pm Antarctica. At
b) 10pm this time of year,
c) Midnight
the position of the
d) It doesn’t
earth relative to
the sun means
 Ice Breaker answers...
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Antarctica
Which of these animals is
not found in Antarctica?
a) PenguinsC. Polar Bears
are found in the
b) Killer whale
Arctic, not the
c) Polar bear
d) Seal Antarctic
 Ice Breaker answers...
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Antarctica
Antarctica’s ice sheets hold
30%, 50%, 70% or 90% of
the world’s fresh water?
a) 30%
b) 50%
C.
c) 70%
d) 90%
 Ice Breaker answers...
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Antarctica A. The first
The first explorer to reach
explorer to make it
the South Pole was from
to the South Pole
Norway, UK, USA
was Roald
or Chile?
a) Norway Amundsen, from
b) UK Norway. His team
c) USA reached the south
d) Chile pole just 33days
 Ice Breaker answers...
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Antarctica
Antarctica is the best place in
A. Best place
the world to find meteorites,
fossils, shells,for meteorite
or precious stones?
a) Meteorites collectors-
b) Fossils
c) Shells Over 25,000
have been
d) Precious stones
 Ice Breaker answers...
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When people that work in the
Antarctica
Antarctica leave the continent
D. ‘Green-out’
some of them describe a feeling of
describes
‘green-out’. What is it? the
a) Gangrene
feeling
b) The desire to ensure
of
seeing plants
sustainability
c) A fear of green people
and trees for
d) The feeling of seeing plants and
 Ice Breaker answers...
During the winter, Antarctica’s
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Antarctica
sea-ice expands so that it becomes
D. With the
25%, 50%, 75% or 100% bigger?
a) 25% added sea ice
b) 50%
c) 75% Antarctica
d) 100% becomes 100%
bigger in the
 Ice Breaker answers...
If Antarctica’s ice sheets
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Antarctica
melted, theD.
world’s oceans
Scientists
would rise by 10-15metres,
today predict
20-25metres, 40-45metres, or
that this is
60-65 metres?
not likely for
a)10-15metres
b)20-25metres
another
c)40-45metres