Is the Antarctic and the Arctic the same thing?

Answer 1

Antarctica is a continent, the Arctic is open sea water.

Answer 2

Both have polar ice caps. The North Pole is located in the Arctic, the South Pole is in Antarctica. The Arctic is predominantly a floating ice cap on the Arctic Ocean. Antartica is a continent of 14 million sq km with an ice cap on top of it.

Answer 3

The Arctic is the area around the North Pole and Antarctica is the continent at the South Pole. The Arctic is not actually land but a combination of ice and water, by contrast, the Antarctic is a continent and landmass covered in ice.

The Arctic is in the North and Antarctica is in the South. They are both at the Earth's poles but the Arctic is made up of solely ice and is just a collection of large ice caps. Antarctica is actually a continent with ice and solid land too.

The biggest difference is that the Arctic region is essentially a frozen ocean surrounded by continents. Antarctica is a frozen continent surrounded by an ocean.

Answer 4

No.

The Polar Regions are defined by the Antarctic and Arctic Circles.

The Antarctic Circle is at 66 degrees 32 minutes S latitude. The South Pole is at the centre of the Antarctic Circle.

The Arctic Circle is at 66 degrees 32 minutes N latitude. The North Pole is at the centre of the Arctic Circle.

Antarctica is a mostly uninhabited continent of approximately 14,000,000 sq km. The Antarctic Ice Sheet consists of about 13.72 million sq km of permanent ice representing 90% of the world's ice.

The Arctic region is mostly the northern polar ice cap floating in the Arctic Ocean with the northernmost bits of Asia, Europe and North America protruding in to it.
More detail:
The Antarctic Circle defines the northern boundary of governance by The Antarctic Treaty, which specifies that the entire geography is dedicated to science.


Governance of the Arctic, conversely, is just now being decided, with The Antarctic Treaty as a model.

Answer 5

Both polar environments are cold and generally inhospitable.

However, people and animals have been known to exist for at least 10,000 years in the Arctic geography, especially in the northern limits of the Americas, Europe and Russia. The north pole is located on water.

There are no people or animals known to exist in Antarctica, however: it's at least 30 degrees F. colder than the Arctic, because of its being a continent which retains the cold. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent contains about 70% of the world's fresh water. The south pole is located on a continent.

Answer 6

No. they are polar opposites.

Antarctica is a continent upon which sits the South Pole at 90 degrees South Latitude.

The Arctic is an ocean whereupon is located the North Pole at 90 degrees North Latitude.

Answer 7

No.

Antarctica is about 30 degrees colder than the Arctic, because Antarctica is a land mass with a polar ice cap nearly two miles thick; the Arctic is only sea water and ice.

Answer 8

Antarctica is a continent and a land mass, while the arctic ocean is just an ocean which you can't walk on unlike Antarctica where you can walk on.

Answer 9

Arctic is north pole Antarctic is South pole

Answer 10

The Arctic is the North Pole and Antarctica is the South Pole.