Script board for presentation
Slide one – Title and names
Slide two – About Antarctica
Slide three – Geographical Features
Slide four – Info Geographical Features
Slide five – Info Geographical Features
Slide six – Human Impacts
Slide seven – Info Human Impacts
Slide eight – Info Human Impacts
Slide nine – Animal Life
Slide ten – Info Animal Life
Slide eleven – Info Animal Life
Slide twelve – Antarctic Treaty
Slide thirteen – Info Antarctic Treaty
Slide fourteen – Info Antarctic Treaty
Slide fifteen - Websites and books – Kristen
Slide sixteen – Websites and books – Jayden
Slide seventeen – Websites and books – Mitchell
Slide eighteen – Websites and books – Emily
Slide nineteen – Thank you for watching
Slide twenty – The end
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Animal Life
ANIMAL LIFE
Antarctica is an interesting place and animals are important. Two of them are Seals and Penguins.
The Weddle Seal can swim and catch fish 1000 ft in the water. The Ross island Seals has the best fish for the Weddell Seal. The leopard seal catches its prey by jumping out in front of them.
Weddell Seals live for only 25 years at a time the Weddell seal stays with her pup for the first 2 weeks and then she runs back to the sea. After 2 days the pup learns to catch it’s prey. It takes 4 days to learn how to swim .The mum will collect food for the pup for 10 or 9 weeks then it goes to sea to have a life of its own. In the sea the Elephant seal stays with the pup for 25-30 days to teach it tricks and how to survive.
A king penguins chicks first winter; it can weigh almost as much as a normal adult. Over the winter the chick loses weight but when spring returns and fishing improves it begins to put on a lot of weight. But when they’re older they begin to go skinny again. If the chick or the parent leaves its chick the emperor will steal alone it. When some penguins come back from fishing they will have a hole in its stomach.
Antarctica is an interesting place and animals are important. Two of them are Seals and Penguins.
The Weddle Seal can swim and catch fish 1000 ft in the water. The Ross island Seals has the best fish for the Weddell Seal. The leopard seal catches its prey by jumping out in front of them.
Weddell Seals live for only 25 years at a time the Weddell seal stays with her pup for the first 2 weeks and then she runs back to the sea. After 2 days the pup learns to catch it’s prey. It takes 4 days to learn how to swim .The mum will collect food for the pup for 10 or 9 weeks then it goes to sea to have a life of its own. In the sea the Elephant seal stays with the pup for 25-30 days to teach it tricks and how to survive.
A king penguins chicks first winter; it can weigh almost as much as a normal adult. Over the winter the chick loses weight but when spring returns and fishing improves it begins to put on a lot of weight. But when they’re older they begin to go skinny again. If the chick or the parent leaves its chick the emperor will steal alone it. When some penguins come back from fishing they will have a hole in its stomach.
Emily's imformation report
Antarctic treaty information report
By Emily
Did you know? That Antarctica has something called the Antarctic Treaty and it is also known as the ATS system.
The Antarctic Treaty was signed by 12 nations in 1959 in Washington DC.The Antarctic treaty was also signed during the cold war. But know only seven countries have decided to claim pieces of Antarctica. There is one piece of Antarctica that is unclaimed.
The seven countries that claim pieces of Antarctica are Australia, New Zealand, Norway, France, Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom. No single nation owns Antarctica. Australia claims the most of Antarctica. Australia claims 42 percent of Antarctica.no other claims can be made today.
Every year the Diplomats and the scientists meet together to improve the Antarctic Treaty at meetings. At the meetings some rules can become tighter or stricter they may even agree to make new rules. In 1964, an agreement was made to protect natural areas, plants and animal life in Antarctica.
In the Antarctic Treaty there are things called Provisions. Provisions are statements that they have made that are like their aims. These are some provisions.-Antarctica will be used for peaceful use only.
That Antarctica doesn’t become international conflict.
Antarctica will not be used for any weapon testing or nuclear explosions.
The stations, ships and aircrafts that are traveling across the seas will have to be opened for inspections.
And that there will be complete freedom for scientific investigation.
The governments of Australia, Argentina, Belguim , japan, New Zealand, Norway and many more have recognized that Antarctica is in the interest of all man kind that if the Antarctic Treaty continues on then Antarctica will continue on forever as well.
By Emily
Did you know? That Antarctica has something called the Antarctic Treaty and it is also known as the ATS system.
The Antarctic Treaty was signed by 12 nations in 1959 in Washington DC.The Antarctic treaty was also signed during the cold war. But know only seven countries have decided to claim pieces of Antarctica. There is one piece of Antarctica that is unclaimed.
The seven countries that claim pieces of Antarctica are Australia, New Zealand, Norway, France, Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom. No single nation owns Antarctica. Australia claims the most of Antarctica. Australia claims 42 percent of Antarctica.no other claims can be made today.
Every year the Diplomats and the scientists meet together to improve the Antarctic Treaty at meetings. At the meetings some rules can become tighter or stricter they may even agree to make new rules. In 1964, an agreement was made to protect natural areas, plants and animal life in Antarctica.
In the Antarctic Treaty there are things called Provisions. Provisions are statements that they have made that are like their aims. These are some provisions.-Antarctica will be used for peaceful use only.
That Antarctica doesn’t become international conflict.
Antarctica will not be used for any weapon testing or nuclear explosions.
The stations, ships and aircrafts that are traveling across the seas will have to be opened for inspections.
And that there will be complete freedom for scientific investigation.
The governments of Australia, Argentina, Belguim , japan, New Zealand, Norway and many more have recognized that Antarctica is in the interest of all man kind that if the Antarctic Treaty continues on then Antarctica will continue on forever as well.
Antarctica Human Impact.
Antarctica Human Impacts Antarctica is often thought as a pristine land untouched by human body. Unfortunately for a little more than a hundred years, people have been travailing to Antarctica.
More recently attitudes have changed as people begin to realise all over the world, that there are little unvisited places left on Earth and they have enormous value to humanity/the environment.
Antarctica is believed to have many mineral treasures such as coal, iron ore, copper, gold, uranium, and platinum. People in Antarctica also dig up oil and natural gas. In Antarctica many Antarctic treaty places are conceded that large-scale commercial mining in Antarctica might cause environmentally damage. Mining would be difficult in such a fragile and hard area. Antarctica has high transport costs, and the icy Antarctica would make work very difficult.
With the exception of those involved in fisheries, most visitors to the Antarctica go either as tourists or as part of national scientific programs. The affected area surrounding a base is called it’s ecological footprint. Some larger bases in Antarctica have researchers to assess the ways Antarctica’s bases and scientific research can effect of the environment.
At some locations mostly around long-standing research stations, evidence of past human activity is clear, and, as Antarctica tourism ceases, the pressure on the environment can only grow.
With the exception of those involved in fisheries, most visitors to Antarctica go either as tourists or as part as atticitis undertaken and the potential environmental impacts are common to all visitors. Although nearly three times as many people visit Antarctica as tourists (14,000) go as part as the national program far exceeds the number of tourists Internationally ,Australia has taken a leading role in promoting environmental protection with in the Antarctic treaty system since it’s interception.
Hunting for animals like whales, penguins and seals leaded people to the Antarctic in the early years of the 19th century and with in only a couple of decades, ten years caused no crases in wildlife populations.
Fishing is the only large-scale commercial resource harvest currently undertaken in the Antarctic treaty area. Now sealing and whaling have effectively ceased/stopped by humans in Antarctica.
Whaling was banded in 1982. However the international whaling commission still allows Japan, Iceland and Norway to take a small amount of minke whales in Antarctica.
Antarctica krill are small open-ocean crustaceans (shrimp like creatures). Krill harvesting in Antarctica is controlled to prevent over krilling and to ensure there are enough krill to sustain the southern ocean ecosystem.
People are now aware that Antarctica needs to be protected.
Human impacts have become issues/problems for the management of Antarctica.
More recently attitudes have changed as people begin to realise all over the world, that there are little unvisited places left on Earth and they have enormous value to humanity/the environment.
Antarctica is believed to have many mineral treasures such as coal, iron ore, copper, gold, uranium, and platinum. People in Antarctica also dig up oil and natural gas. In Antarctica many Antarctic treaty places are conceded that large-scale commercial mining in Antarctica might cause environmentally damage. Mining would be difficult in such a fragile and hard area. Antarctica has high transport costs, and the icy Antarctica would make work very difficult.
With the exception of those involved in fisheries, most visitors to the Antarctica go either as tourists or as part of national scientific programs. The affected area surrounding a base is called it’s ecological footprint. Some larger bases in Antarctica have researchers to assess the ways Antarctica’s bases and scientific research can effect of the environment.
At some locations mostly around long-standing research stations, evidence of past human activity is clear, and, as Antarctica tourism ceases, the pressure on the environment can only grow.
With the exception of those involved in fisheries, most visitors to Antarctica go either as tourists or as part as atticitis undertaken and the potential environmental impacts are common to all visitors. Although nearly three times as many people visit Antarctica as tourists (14,000) go as part as the national program far exceeds the number of tourists Internationally ,Australia has taken a leading role in promoting environmental protection with in the Antarctic treaty system since it’s interception.
Hunting for animals like whales, penguins and seals leaded people to the Antarctic in the early years of the 19th century and with in only a couple of decades, ten years caused no crases in wildlife populations.
Fishing is the only large-scale commercial resource harvest currently undertaken in the Antarctic treaty area. Now sealing and whaling have effectively ceased/stopped by humans in Antarctica.
Whaling was banded in 1982. However the international whaling commission still allows Japan, Iceland and Norway to take a small amount of minke whales in Antarctica.
Antarctica krill are small open-ocean crustaceans (shrimp like creatures). Krill harvesting in Antarctica is controlled to prevent over krilling and to ensure there are enough krill to sustain the southern ocean ecosystem.
People are now aware that Antarctica needs to be protected.
Human impacts have become issues/problems for the management of Antarctica.
Monday, July 6, 2009
geographical features
Geographical Features
Antarctica is on the bottom of the globe where the South Pole is. It’s the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent. The size of Antarctica is 5 100,000 miles and 2,000 meters of ice deep. Antarctica is a very cold place.
Glaciers are big rivers of ice. In Antarctica there is the biggest glacier called Lambert Glacier. The glacier is 210,000 feet thick and glaciers carve valleys .There are valley glaciers and continenental glaciers. Valley glaciers are long and narrow glaciers around mountains. Continental glaciers are glaciers that spread out from central mass.
Icebergs are lumps of fresh water that float in the ocean. The top of an iceberg is very small and the bottom bit is very big. The bottom of the iceberg is in the ocean and the icebergs float. Some icebergs flip over in the sea.
Climate is very cold in Antarctica. The coldest temperature ever was -89.6 Celsius in Antarctica. In Antarctica there is sun light for six months and six months of darkness.
There are seven major mountain ranges. In Antarctica there is two active volcanoes. There are a lot of hills and mountains in Antarctica.
There is a lot of water, snow and ice in Antarctica. Some ice is called pancake ice because it’s shaped like a pancake. The snow in Antarctica turns into ice because it’s very cold in Antarctica.
In conclusion Antarctica has lots of different landscape things. Like glaciers, icebergs, mountains and volcanoes. Antarctica is a very cold continent.
Antarctica is on the bottom of the globe where the South Pole is. It’s the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent. The size of Antarctica is 5 100,000 miles and 2,000 meters of ice deep. Antarctica is a very cold place.
Glaciers are big rivers of ice. In Antarctica there is the biggest glacier called Lambert Glacier. The glacier is 210,000 feet thick and glaciers carve valleys .There are valley glaciers and continenental glaciers. Valley glaciers are long and narrow glaciers around mountains. Continental glaciers are glaciers that spread out from central mass.
Icebergs are lumps of fresh water that float in the ocean. The top of an iceberg is very small and the bottom bit is very big. The bottom of the iceberg is in the ocean and the icebergs float. Some icebergs flip over in the sea.
Climate is very cold in Antarctica. The coldest temperature ever was -89.6 Celsius in Antarctica. In Antarctica there is sun light for six months and six months of darkness.
There are seven major mountain ranges. In Antarctica there is two active volcanoes. There are a lot of hills and mountains in Antarctica.
There is a lot of water, snow and ice in Antarctica. Some ice is called pancake ice because it’s shaped like a pancake. The snow in Antarctica turns into ice because it’s very cold in Antarctica.
In conclusion Antarctica has lots of different landscape things. Like glaciers, icebergs, mountains and volcanoes. Antarctica is a very cold continent.
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