What is the temperature of the Arctic in February?
Given that Antarctica is about as large as USA and Mexico combined, you could pick a number between about zero degrees F. and minus 100 degrees F. and that number would be the temperature somewhere on the continent during February.
What are 5 producers in the arctic?
The Producers, in the biological sense, are large multicellular brown algaes (like kelp), and unicellular algaes that form the phytoplankton. Thses unicellular algaies are members of one of several algal groups. One example would be the Chrysophyta, the Golden Algaes. Pretty much all plants are producers.
How many people visit arctic every year?
Since 1988, about two million people visit Glacier NP each year.
What are houses like in the arctic?
They tend to be quite colorful as they are in many parts of the Arctic, and they are all raised above the ground to allow air to flow beneath due to the permafrost.
How does the white coat of certain Arctic animals become an adaptation during winter?
Dark colors absorb light, while light colors reflect light.
How many different species live in the arctic?
if i am correct there are about over 50 animals in the Antarctica because many more are dying around
What is a large piece of ice that covers land?
A large piece of ice that covers land is called an Ice Sheet.
How do arctic willow adapt to the cold?
An Arctic Willow is the only tree that lives in the Arctic Tundra and it only grow about 4 inches fronthe ground. lol hope i helped!!!
What are the arctic lowlands vegetation?
There are not very many plants in the arctic lowlands. There are not many trees or anything that has flowers. There is just mainly shrubs and lichen.
How many months does the sun not set in the Arctic Circle?
Your answer depends on where you are on the continent.
On the Antarctic Peninsula -- near the Antarctic Circle, you only experience one day of no sunset. At the South Pole, the period is six months.
Why do you think farming did not develop extensively in the arctic and the subartic regions?
not a long enough growing season
What adaptations do you need to survive in water?
the most important would be nonpourous skin (skin than is resistant to absorbing water) or fur or feathers that accomplish the same thing. Then there would have to be an efficent way of getting nutrients, if its is difficult to capture or find food, plants or animals ,it is unlikely that the animals would survive. These would be the most important but there could be many others that would help.
What would you do if you were stuck in the Arctic?
Your answer depends on the type of emergency.
Antarctica is isolated, unsettled and lacks resources you can find in more civilized locations.
Generally, people who work and live there -- in support of science -- take care of each other.