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antartica vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (1872-1928) a Norwegion explorer who was the the leader of the first group of men to reach the South Pole on December of 1911 | Roald Amundsen |
| (1868-1912) a British explorer who was the leader of a secound group of men to reach the south pole on January of 1912, and he died on the return triponly 11 miles of the base camp. | Robert Scott(1874-1922) a British explorer whe led several expiditions to the South Pole, but was unsuccessful in his attempts to actually reach the South Pole. |
| (1874-1922)a British explorer who led several expiditions to the South Pole, but was unseccussful in his attempts to actually reach the South Pole. | Ernest Shackleton |
| a deep bay of the Southern ocean in Antartica between Victoria land in Marie Byrd land. | Ross Sea |
| a parallel of latitude aproximatly 66.5 degrees south of the equator that includes the South Frigid. | Antartica Circle |
| shrimplike animals that live in the open sea, and they are an important food source for fish, bird, and whales in Antartica. | Krill |
| a floating mass of ice that has broken from the seaward end of a glaciar or a polar ice sheets. | iceburgs |
| a large massof ice that forms on land through recrystallization of snow, and it moves forward under its own weight. | glacier |
| a crack or a fissure in a glacier resulting from stress produced by movement. | crevasse |
| a large flat mass of floatin ice. | ice floe |
| a freeless level of ground in polar regions. | tundra |
| a colony of breeding animals, generialy birds. | rookery |
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