Transcript The Arctic Region

The Arctic Region
Landforms:
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There is nothing to block your view…
- except for the occational PINGOS!
What are pingos:
Pingos are permantly frozen mountains. They
are formed in a permanently frozen area as “almost
frozen water” pushes into the permafrost area then
freezes, then more “almost frozen water” pushes
and freezes and that continues until a mountain has
formed over many years. That was hard to
understand right? TOO BAD!!!
Landforms part 2;
so what there’s two parts get over it…
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You know how we talked about PINGOS, well in the
arctic we DON’T have ANY trees to block the
wondrous view of the pingos.
- the reason is our ground is permantly frozen
which doesn’t allow the trees to put down their
roots
- the soil is in poor shape because nothing is
decomposed… heck… it’s only ice, come on.
…but in the summer we have BEAUTIFUL flowers…ha
beat that!
Landforms part 3;
okay this is the last one! We promise…
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Ever worry about when you go to the ocean that a
big wave will come and knock you out and you will
drown…?
- well here in the arctic we don’t have huge
bodies of water…heck we don’t have any of the
small ones either…and the big ones are almost
permantly frozen…
…so basically, you have a slim to nothing chance of
drowning
Landforms part 4;
okay so there’s one more! Calm down.
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DID YOU KNOW…?
-If a pingo becomes warm and starts to
melt and then it collapses it is called a
OGNIP…which is just pingo spelt
backwards…hehehehe!...and no we didn’t
make that up.
-There are no hills in the arctic because
when the ice age was ending the extremely
huge iceberg pulled back… and in doing that
it scraped away any mountains in its path.
Landforms part 5;
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Just kidding, just kidding we’re all
done with landforms.
Now on to climate…
Climate
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Unlike those crazy and humid places where it’s
EXTEREMELY HOT in the summer and BRUTALLY
cold in the winter…
Arctic summers are at a nice moderate
temperature for about… one month and that’s our
growing season…hey some people don’t like
summer that much, deal…
*because we don’t have a lot of precipitation the
summer will be a beautiful sunny day
*another cool thing is that the sun never sets in
the summer.
Climate part 2
winter…
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If you like winter but don’t always having to
worry about too much snow…
…then the arctic is for you even though
people think that the arctic is a place that has
snow 24/7 it’s not true…
*but what is true is that the ground had
snow and it didn’t melt in the summer and so it
just stayed and then at the next snow fall the
snow just compacts on the old snow. And so
on and so on…but you get the picture. Another
thing is that in the winter the sun never
rises…cool huh?
Climate part 3;
I think this is all…
DID YOU KNOW…?
Because of the way that the arctic is formed and
because of where it is in the world we don’t have these
hazards;
*Chinooks
*Ice Storms
*Flooding
*Forest Fires…we don’t have any trees…duh
*Hurricanes
We have permafrost…but it’s at our advantage…hehe.
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Climate part 4;
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Nah I’m kidding, there’s no more things
to say about our climate….
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…and now on to Ecosystem…
Ecosystem
Biome = Tundra
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Like wildlife but hate the dangers of it…?
-Thanks to the climate there are no
pesky bugs or insects to get in your way of
enjoying the wild…
-…the reasons are many but here are a
few to explain,
*many animals cannot adapt to the cold
climate like the other animals can
*many insects need proper growing soil to
live in
Ecosystem part 2;
YES a part twooo…I’m not happy noooo
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Also to add on to before;
*because we don’t have trees,
*no trees means no forest fires We
do have arctic animals like;
*fish, the arctic hare, the arctic fox
and belugas…and fish is the main
diet AND we have HUSKIES.
Lifestyle
• DID YOU KNOW…?
-that the arctic is as close to the magnetic north
pole as you can get
-we are also close to where Santa Claus lives
-because of the land the houses have to be on
stilts…that’s even if they are near pingos…if they had a
basement then it would melt the pingo and turn it into
an ognip…hehe
-you can ride dog sleds and have a freezer all year
round because of the permafrost…cool huh…
-statistic show that the arctic people who work make
more than any one in the other regions.