Poles Apart

In this world we’re can find poles apart,there is Antartica and Arctic. Antartica is nearly twice the size of the united states. The name Antartica was coined to mean “opposite to the Arctic”. Antartica is a high and ice covered landmass. But in Arctic the landmass are grouped around the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. This areas is very different. For the climate Antartica is the coldest area in the world, 30 degrees colder than the Arctic, at the south pole nearly 10,000 feet high,and monthly mean temperatures run well below zero. Daily temperatures may drop far below the monthly mean. In winter, temperatures sometimes fall below -100 degrees Fahrenheit. And in August 1960, a temperatures of -127 degrees Fahrenheit ( it’s the world’s record low temperatures ). Beside that, there are a different land and animals. In Antartica we can find a few of plants and penguins populate ( in Antartica coastline ). In the Artic there are many plants (such as; in some of the few ice-free areas of Antartica, mosses, lichens,and algae) and the land animals of the Arctic are foxes, bears, reindeer, and lemmings. In Artic, we can’t find penguins populate. Ice is the great featureof Antartica. More than 4.5 million square miles of ice sheet cover the areas.Antartica is the storehouse of about 85 % of the total world supply of ice. The icecap is very thick, averaging nearly 8,000 feet. At one spot,the ice to be more than 13,000 feet. If this great volume of ice were to melt, the volume of the world oceans would increase, and sea level would rise.