Polar Habitat
Polar habitats are located at the very top and very bottom of the Earth.They are cold, windy and have a lot of snow and ice. It’s even too cold for trees to grow. Polar habitats have just two seasons – summer and winter (but even summer is normally very cold). In the summer, it is light for 24 hours a day (right at the north and south poles, the sun doesn’t set for six whole months when it is summer) and in the winter it is dark for 24 hours a day.
- The name ‘Arctic’ comes from a Greek word meaning ‘near the bear’
- The coldest recorded temperature in the Arctic is around −68 °C (−90 °F)
- The Arctic region is home to the North Pole.
- The Arctic has a number of natural resources, including fish, oil, gas and various minerals
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