What two conditions make Antarctica the coldest place?

Answer 1

The other condition is the lack of sunlight.

Answer 2

Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet -- 90% of the earth's store of ice is there. Plus, beginning September 21, at the Antarctic Circle, there are increasingly longer periods of no sunrises the farther south you are on the continent.

Answer 3

In terms of the energy/heat budget I would say that the lack of sunshine in the Southern Hemisphere winter, and reflection of it by the ice sheet in the late fall/early spring are first (in coming shortwave radiation absent or limited) and the outgoing heat from the earth keeps going through the winter (losing long wave radiation)...is second.

There is also the fact that, it is colder then the north pole due to a differentiated weather system, were the north pole is surrounded by large landmasses (Eurasia, North America and has warm air pushed north because of this. Antarctica has a large continuous strip of ocean running between it and the nearest land mass (south America This creates a wind channel which separates its climate with that of the rest of the world, allowing it to remain colder at all times.

Answer 4

One reason that Antarctica is the coldestce place on earth is that it has high altitude.

IT IS A COLD PLACE BECAUSE NOT MUCH HEAT GETS THERE. THEREFORE IT IS COLD. sorry about the caps

Answer 5

Tilt of the planet, Limited exposure to the sun.
Antarctica is bone chilling cold because of the blistering winds and the dryness of the land.

Answer 6

> because it is the polar redion and the sun hardly ever reaches it, and if it does then the heat doesnt.

Answer 7

the lack of sunlight and the continent's ice sheet that covers it by 98%.

Answer 8

Ice and lack of sunlight during the winter.

It's about 30 degrees colder than the northern polar regions, on average.

Answer 9

continuos darkness