🌍 Where Are the Poles?

What you’ll learn

1. Our Round EarthLearn that Earth is a ball with a North Pole on top and a South Pole on the bottom.The Earth is shaped like a giant ball that spins in space, and a globe is a little model of it. Every ball has a top and a bottom, so the Earth has a North Pole at the very top and a South Pole at the very bottom. The poles are special spots and the coldest places on the planet.
2. The Frozen EndsLearn that the North Pole sits in the frozen Arctic ocean and the South Pole sits on the Antarctic land.The North Pole is surrounded by the Arctic, a frozen ocean of floating sea ice. The South Pole is surrounded by Antarctica, a continent of frozen land. Both are freezing because the Sun's light there is weak and slanted, so it never warms the ice.
3. Finding NorthLearn that a compass points north and match each pole to its place and animals.A compass has a needle that always points north, helping people find the North Pole. The North Pole goes with the Arctic and polar bears, and the South Pole goes with Antarctica and penguins. The Earth is a ball with poles on top and bottom and the middle wrapping all the way around.

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Grounded in trusted sources

• NASA
• National Geographic Kids
• Britannica Kids
• NOAA

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