The polar bear is built for swimming. Its small tapering head cuts through the water like the bow of a ship.

Arctic Scavenger Hunt

 Follow this link to 
find your answers for 
numbers 1-12. 

Follow this link to 
answer the remaining 
questions.
1. Where is the Arctic area 
   of our world?

   ____________________

 9.   When can there be 24 hours 
      of darkness  in  the Arctic?     
      _______________________    
2. What is the climate like in 
    the Arctic region?		 10.  How can people survive in 
      the Arctic?
      ______________________          _______________________
3. Describe a tundra. ________ 11.  What kind of fun activities  
      to the Arctic children enjoy? 
      _______________________
      _______________________       _______________________
4. What does "tundra" mean?_________ 12.  For what purposes do the 
      people of the north use the 
      animals that live there?
      _______________________
5. What do we call the small 
   growing things that float on the 
   surface of the polar seas?
    ______________________________		 13. What is the polar bear's 
     only predator?

      ________________________
6. What food do the fish,
    clams, seabirds, whales, 
    walruses, and  seals that 
    live in the polar seas eat?		        
   _____________________________ 14. What do polar bears like 
     to eat?
7. Describe how this food looks. ________        _________________________
     ______________________________ 15.  How do polar bears catch 
      their prey?
8. Describe the winter season  
    in the Arctic.    		        _________________________
     ______________________________        _________________________
  16.  Polar bears make dens 
      in earth and snow banks, 
      where they’ll stay through 
      the winter and give birth 
      to one to three babies. 
      What are the babies called?    
      _________________________
17.  What does the mother 
      polar bear teach them to do?
      _________________________

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