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today young possoms we will be learning about antarctica click the links to view

[|antarctic animals] did u know that if antartica melted the sea every where would rise 65-70 metres-200-210 feet. did u know that Antartica is pushed into the earth because of the weight of its ice sheets so if it melted it would spring back up 500 metres.It would do this very slowly it would take 10000 years to do so. In the cold and dry conditions of Antartica dry vallyswere like those on mars and when NASA found out they did testing there for operation VIKING.It has not rained in the ''dry vallys of Antartica for aproximetly 2 millon years. One of the biggest ice bergs ever [possibly the biggest]fell off the Ross ice shelf in 2000.The ice berg was 295 kms long and 37kms wide with a suface area of 11000 square kms on top of the water it was 10 times bigger underneath the surface of the water.It was simmilar in size to THE BAHAMAS AND QUATAR. It has been estemated that the average whale eats 4 millon krill every day. [|ice bergs] [|antartica natural recources] [|antarctica's ice and pack ice] [|antartica's size and maps] The snow at the south pole takes about100'000 before it drops all over antarctica. When the sea frezzes at antarctica in winter antarctica expands 40'000 kms. The Antarctic ice cap has 29 kubic kms of ice and holds 90% of the worlds ice and 60% to 70% of the worlds fresh water. In 1981 the us tracked a group of krill that was 10 millon tonnes of weight of krill.