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🐻‍❄️ Arctic vs Antarctic

Meet the two coldest, iciest places on Earth and learn why polar bears and penguins never say hello.

3
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~15 min
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🔬 Science
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Ages 6–12
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What you’ll learn

  1. Two Cold PlacesLearn that the Arctic is a frozen ocean in the north and Antarctica is a frozen land in the south.The Earth has two cold ends. The Arctic sits at the North Pole and is really a frozen ocean of floating sea ice. Antarctica sits at the South Pole and is a continent, a huge piece of land covered in thick ice.
  2. Who Lives There?Learn that polar bears live only in the Arctic and penguins live only in Antarctica.Polar bears live in the Arctic in the north, walking on the sea ice with thick warm fur. Penguins live in Antarctica in the south, waddling on ice and swimming to catch fish. They live at opposite ends of the world and never meet in nature.
  3. Same and DifferentCompare the Arctic and Antarctica and learn the word continent.The Arctic and Antarctica are different: one is a frozen ocean with polar bears, the other a frozen land with penguins. But both are freezing cold and covered in white ice and snow. Antarctica is a continent, a huge piece of land, while the Arctic is ocean.

Questions this course answers

What is the Arctic in the north really made of?

The Arctic is a frozen ocean, where the cold sea turns into floating sea ice around the North Pole.

Antarctica in the south is a big piece of what?

Antarctica is a continent, a huge piece of land covered in thick ice and snow.

Where do polar bears live?

Polar bears live only in the Arctic, the frozen north, and never in the south.

Do wild polar bears and penguins ever meet?

Polar bears live in the far north and penguins in the far south, so in the wild they never meet.

What do the Arctic and Antarctica both have?

Both poles are the same in one big way: they are freezing cold and covered in ice and snow.

Which word means a very big piece of land, like Antarctica?

A continent is a huge piece of land. Antarctica is a continent made almost all of ice.

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  • Britannica Kids
  • NASA
  • NOAA

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