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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Script board for presentation

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

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.