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ARCTIC

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ocean is a shallow frozen sea surrounded by the tips of continents

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ANTARCTICA

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is a frozen continent surrounded by the southern ocean. Coldest temperatures on earth recorded here in 1983 of- 128.6

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Polar Ice

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extremely dense because the constant build up and pressure pushing air bubbles out and giving it is blue color and can give us information about air

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Icebergs: Antarctic and Artic

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Antarctic: large and smooth
Arctic: tall and jagged

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Glaciers
Advancing
Caving

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Rivers of ice that form on mountain ranges
More growth or building up the ice during winter
when it breaks off
tidewater glacier

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Global Climate Change

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Variations in the earths climate as result of increased global temperatures

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krill

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an important food source for whales, seabirds and fish

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Bipolarity

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similar animals found in the antarctic and arctic but not between

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Polar Bear

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skin is black fur is translucent

hunt seals

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glacier bear

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black bear that has a blue tinge to their fur
the offspring of blue tinged bear survied
it will die cause glaciers are going away

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Beluga

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highly social and highly vocal

most often in big cold estuaries

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harp seal : artic

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ice is their haul out

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Walrus

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dive up to 300 feet for up to 30 min in search for claims

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Narwal

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small family groups merge with others to form larger heard
ten foot long husk highly senstive
tisking which means cleaning tusk

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penguins

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fairy: 2lbs at 16 in

emperor penguin: 4 ft 40 lbs

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The abyess

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earths last great hiding place

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nourishment

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marine snow: detritus that falls from shallower water is scavenged by many organsims

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giant squid

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contain ammonium chloride for buoyancy and have the largest high 12inches

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sea vent communities

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hydrothermal vent communities are such biological areas in the oceanic abyss

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Bioluminescence

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the production of light by a living organism formula: luciferin and oxygen (in the presence of luciferase = oxylyciferin and light