View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-arctic-vs-the-antarctic-camille-seaman How can you tell the two poles apart? Where are the penguins? What about the bears? The Arctic pole is...
========== On our planet,we have two polar regions:the Arctic, whose name comes fromthe Greek Arktikos, of the North,and the Antarcticfrom Antarktikos,opposite of the North.But there's an easier way to remember themif you just remember what surrounds them.The Arctic, situated in the Northern hemisphere of our planet,is an ocean entirely surrounded by land.On the other side of the world,the Antarctic is a continententirely surrounded by ocean.So, the Arctic has polar bears but no penguins,and the Antarctic has penguins but no polar bears.Let's talk about the Arctic first.The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered oceansurrounded by treeless permafrost.The area can be definedas the region between the Arctic Circleand the North Pole.If you were to stand at the ...
