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Arctic SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Antarctica p.24
▸ ▸ Climate change
The Arctic is a cold region that surrounds the North Pole. p.60
It is mostly sea, which is frozen for much of the year, but ▸ ▸ Oceans and seas
it also includes most of Greenland and the northernmost p.187

parts of North America, Europe, and Asia. ▸ ▸ Polar habitats
p.197
▸ ▸ World p.275

Chilly circle
The Arctic Circle is about twice
the size of the US. The animals Chukchi
that live there need to be Arctic
able to survive in the cold. snowy owl
Land animals have thick Reindeer
Alaska
fur or fluffy feathers, line fishing Sea ice Walrus Lemmings are
and sea animals have small rodents.
a thick layer of fat. Arctic tern Brown They eat plants
lemming
Narwhal and live in burrows.
Musk ox
The Nenets
Submarine Nenets people of Arctic
About the Russia are reindeer
Arctic Arctic North herders who live
poppy Pole in tents made of
reindeer skin.

Population: Inuit ice Arctic
At least 500,000 fishing Arctic fox Ocean
in summer, but
fewer in winter Gas
55 million years
ago, the Arctic was
Iron ore Ice breaker Oil so hot that there
Highest point:
Gunnbjørn Fjeld, was no ice, and
Greenland Arctic cod alligators lived
in the sea.

Lowest point:
Arctic Ocean All change
Our planet is getting warmer,
and the Arctic sea ice is melting.
This means that ships can now Polar bears
Biggest desert: Polar bears live in the
Arctic Polar travel across the Arctic between
Desert the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Arctic and roam the sea
ice, hunting seals. The
bears are at risk from
climate change because
the sea ice is melting.
This makes it harder
for the bears to find
seals to eat.

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