information about antarctica! by: tyler hallman, trisha workman, and shelby hamilton

Information About Antarctica!

By: Tyler Hallman, Trisha Workman, and

Shelby Hamilton

As you all know, it is alwaysvery cold in Antarctica. Theaverage temperature in

Antarcticais 1.2 degrees Farienhight. Thecoldest it ever was in

Antarcticawas –128 degrees Celsius.TheHarsh winds made the coldness even worse.

One animal that livesin Antarctica is a seal.Seals eat fish andpenguins. Some otheranimals that live inAntarctica are polarbears, killer whales,cape pigeon, and bluewhales.

• In Antarctica moss is

• most common. There are only two flowering plants in Antarctica. Grass in Antarctica is dense on sunny coasts. In Antarctica there is only one type of herbs.

Antarctica alsohas some naturalresources. One of them is fishing. someSome other naturalresources are coal,tin, oil, copper, ironore, and natural gas.

Antarctica has many physical features, like the Transantarctic Mountains. These mountains cross the entire continent. The Transantarctic Mts., are the largest of ice free, rocky areas known as the “dry valleys.” some of the peaks rise more than 14,000 feet

off of the ground. The highest mountain in Antarctica is Vinson Massif which is16,067 feet high.

The Lutzow – Holm Bay, Porpoise Bay, and PrydzBay are in Antarctica.TheRiiser-Larson Bay is also inAntarctica. The HollickKenyon Plateau is also inAntarctica. Cape Darnley &Cape Norvegia are there too.

Antarctica hasMany ice shelfs too. Some of them arethe Ronne Ice Shelf,the Ross Ice Shelf,the Lason Ice Shelf,the Fimbul Ice Shelf,And the Amery IceShelf.

One historical event that happened in Antarctica was kind of like the “Ozone Timeline.” ‘Planetary Scale waves’ or ‘long waves’ heat up the air in Antarctica. The whole 'Ozone Timeline' started in the 1980's when the scientists found out the ozone was being polluted by certain chemicals called fluorocarbons. This was major, because the ozone layer protects us from harmful ultraviolet rays, and causes global warming. But, it was causing holes in our stratosphere, the second lowest layer in the atmosphere, and that is why it is referred to as "holes" in the atmosphere. This was a major historical event that happened not

too long ago.

Thank you for listening and hopefully you learned some new information about Antarctica that you didn’t know.