PROLIFERATION OF KELPS IN THE ARCTIC

Question 1

What are Kelps?

Answer 1

-are large brown algae seaweeds

-can survive freezing temperatures and long periods
of darkness, and even grow under sea ice.

Question 2

significance

Answer 2

• underwater forests that kelps create are used by many animals for shelter and food
• • Kelp forests also help protect coastlines by decreasing the power of waves during storms and reducing coastal erosion.
• food source

Question 3

How climate change is leading to expansion of Kelps?

Answer 3

warm temperature -> more growth

Question 4

For pre

Answer 4

-The Canadian Arctic is the longest Arctic coastline in the world.

-In the northwestern Canadian Arctic, lack of rock substrate and a harsher climate support smaller,
fragmented kelp forests.