Where do animals in Antarctica find shelter?

Answer 1

During a few months in December, there are sufficient nutrients (fertilizers such as N, P, and K) in the surface ocean waters to support tremendous blooms of marine plants. The nearly constant sunlight (sunset can be at 11:30pm and sunrise at 3:30am along the Antarctic Peninsula) during summer creates perfect conditions for the microscopic marine plants (phytoplankton) to multiply in vast quantities.

Answer 2

Shelters in Antarctica are called igloo satellite cabins. They are light eight field shelters that are hemispheric in shape and mostly red in color.

Another Answer

Shelters are provided on each research station and vary from dorm rooms to Quonset huts, depending on the season. Field camps employ tents. Every research station supplies its own form of shelter.

Answer 3

Polar bears, for example, are remarkably adapted to withstand the incredible cold (-70 below zero sometimes) of the Arctic North Pole - (Please Note: there are NO polar bears at the antarctic South Pole).

But when temperatures do get extremely cold, like -70 below zero, during a raging blizzard, polar bears will actually scrape a snow wall for protection against the wind. Polar bears will also dig a den in the snow to deliver their babies.

But most of the time in the winter, when temperatures just hit

-30 below zero, polar bears sleep out in the open on the snow. When the pack ice forms in deep winter, the polar bears go out on the ice to hunt seals. Polar bears think nothing of diving in and out of the frozen slushy water when traveling from ice floe to ice floe; and polar bears are great swimmers sometimes paddling miles out to sea away from any land or ice berg.

Each follicle of the polar bears fur is hollow. This hollow traps air which increases the warmth of the polar bear's fur. So again, polar bears stay outside in the cold for most of the freezing winter.

Answer 4

People who work and live in Antarctica are assigned to shelter locations, generally dormitories. Field camp workers take tents for shelter.

On expeditions, explorers carry their own shelter with them.

Answer 5

There are buildings, portable tents, huts, excess military shelters which all serve as 'shelter'.

Answer 6

Buildings are useful for shelter. Scott tents and Quonset huts are also used, depending on the location and the season.

Answer 7

the types of shelter used in antarctica by scientists is a special laboratory brought to antarctica. we can also build an igloo for shelter over in antarctica for visitors or anyone.

Answer 8

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