* The Arctic has polar bears and the Antarctic does not. * The Antarctic has penguins and the Arctic doesn't. * The Antarctic has no trees. * The Arctic has Tundra with rich plant life in Spring and Summer. * Antarctic has algae but not the Arctic. * Antarctica has mainly calm animals but the Arctic has some fierce ones.
Antarctica is a continent surrounded by salt water: the Arctic is salt water surrounded by continents.
The Antarctic continent is covered -- 98% of it -- with an ice sheet. It is about 30 degrees F colder than the Arctic.
1) The Arctic has polar bears but no penguins
2) Then Antarctic has penguins but no polar bears
3) The North Pole, in the middle of the Arctic, is in over 13,000 feet of water
4) The South Pole, in the middle of Antarctica, is on a plateau almost 10,000 feet above sea level
5) Antarctica gets far colder than the Arctic
Apart from both being at separate ends of the world, the artic is actually a mass of floating ice, while the antarctic is ice covering solid land.
Alaska has more buildings and pollution so is warmer than antarctica.
Alaska is owned by USA and antarctica is owned by countries that signed the treaty
The Arctic is the North Pole; Antarctic is the South Pole.
The Arctic has polar bears; Antarctic has penguins
The Arctic Ocean is between Alaska and the North Pole.
There is a 4 hour time difference between Alaska and Indiana. 7 AM in Alaska = 11 AM in Indiana.
Two hours: 10 AM Alaska = 8 AM Los Cabos, Mexico.
Alaska is 3 hours behind Illinois.
Central Time Michigan is 3 hours ahead of alaska and Eastern Time Michigan is 4 hours ahead of Alaska.
The Arctic Ocean is between Alaska and the North Pole.
The Arctic Circle is just a ring around the top of the world. Any land above it for example bits of Norway, Russia, Canada, Alaska, Finland and Sweden are all bits of the Arctic. Any land above the Arctic Circle is classed as Arctic territory.
Alaska: Pacific and Arctic.
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The difference between the rain forest and the Arctic is that rain forests are tropical and warm and the Arctic is very, very cold.
Alaska is in the U.S. but the U.S. is not in alaska <><><> Alaska is PART of the US. It is a state.
The Bering Sea is in the Arctic. It is between the Alaska (to the East) and Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula (to the West).
The Arctic ocean borders northern Alaska.
That is the Beaufort Sea, south of the Arctic Ocean that borders Alaska to the North.