Antarctica
Across
- 2. Largest mammal on our planet migrates here in the summer (our winter).
- 6. Only continent on earth that doesn't have this plant.
- 8. This content has an average temperature of -76 _____________ in the winter.
- 10. ____________ has the highest average elevation of all the continents.
- 11. East Antarctica is a large ice covered _________.
- 12. Antarctica is the only continent without these
- 14. Antarctica is the _________ largest continent
- 16. This is the most prevalent animal in Antarctica.
- 18. The most prevalent plants that exist here are mosses,_______ and algae.
- 21. Antarctica is the most southern __________ on Earth.
- 22. An ice sheet is a sheet of __________ ice that is attached to land or a continent.
Down
- 1. The Antarctic __________ reaches towards South America and is where Mr. Huizenga will make landfall.
- 3. These are large chunks of ice that break off from land and are floating in one of the surrounding oceans.
- 4. Mr. Huizenga will take a boat from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina across the _______ (Got dissed HARD by Kendrick) Passage.
- 5. This is the highest point on Antarctica.
- 7. _____________ Mountains cross through the middle of the continent dividing the continent into two halves.
- 9. This teacher is just getting back from Antarctica as you work on this assignment.
- 13. The South Polar Skua and _____ are two birds that live here on rocky cliffs.
- 15. Antarctica is the _________________ place on earth.
- 17. Mount Erebus is an active __________ that was discovered by Sir James Clark Ross in 1841
- 19. This location is the furthest south you can go.
- 20. There are 29 countries with ___________ bases on Antarctica.