Climate change in Russia’s Arctic tundra 1. Key words Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text. Tundra‚ permafrost‚ swamp‚ wilderness‚ landslide‚ Catastrophic‚ indigenous‚ itinerant‚ unmistakeable‚ impenetrable 1. The _______________ people of a particular place have lived there for a very long time before other people came to live there. 2. A _______________ situation or event causes a lot of damage or makes a lot of people suffer. 3. A _______________ is
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The Arctic Fox By Rebekah Mackinnon‚ Grade 3 Project due‚ January 23‚ 2013 The Arctic Fox is a cute ball of white fluff. They are the size of a cat. They have short ears and legs; they have
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Trees at the Arctic Circle. In the poem “Trees at the Arctic circle”‚ the author Al Purdy provides a description of dwarf plants that manage to grow above the tree line on Baffin Island‚ a Canadian territory. The topics of this poem are very mundane as he uses different types of trees to illustrate truths about the human condition‚ and in particular about life in the Arctic. However‚ Purdy ’s true goal is to remind the reader that humans are judgmental creatures and that it is only once you
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Committee: Disarmament and Social Council Topic: Prevention of building up of conflict in the arctic region Country: Federal Republic of Austria School: Step by Step International School‚ Jaipur. As the temperature of the Earth rises quite quickly‚ so does the speed at which this storehouse of minerals‚ oils‚ and potential source of energy thaws: The Arctic. The USGS found that the region has an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered‚ technically recoverable oil‚ 1‚670 trillion cubic feet
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To what extent should Canada protect its Arctic Sovereignty? Canadian Arctic Sovereignty is currently a pressing issue has raised many questions about who owns and who has control over the Arctic and its precious resources. The posing question is; to what extent should Canada protect its Arctic Sovereignty? There are many reasons why Canada must go forward in defending and protecting the Arctic to a moderate extent even though it will be a challenging mission considering that the Canadian military
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The Arctic and Antarctic regions are home to some of the coldest and unapproachable landscapes in existence‚ making them the two of the most underdeveloped areas known to man. While located at the two extremes of the Earth‚ both the North Pole and South Pole play a similar and important role in the balance of our planet. The North Pole is located at the highest point in the globe‚ and is one of two axis points that the Earth rotates on. It has no land mass and consists only of ice‚ which constantly
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There are many factors that make the Arctic tundra biome an extreme environment. There are only two seasons in this biome‚ winter and summer. The winters are characterised as long and cold where temperatures can drop below -50°C. There are also parts of the Arctic Circle that experience periods of time without sunlight known as polar nights‚ this can last for several months. During the winter months food is very scarce. The summers are characterised as being short and cool‚ with average temperatures
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A trip to the Arctic would be an eye-opening adventure for anyone‚ it allows travelers to gain perspective on how unique and vast our world truly is. As Doerr proves in his article about his journey to the Arctic‚ the concept of what is normal evolves with time and is in a state of cultural and geographic flux; yet humans are somehow able to establish connections to their perceived view of the world‚ despite its enormity. Humans are creatures of habit when they grow up in the same environment and
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Alba Date: May 22‚ Global Warming and how it is affecting the Arctic Tundra The Arctic tundra is a region in the Northern Hemisphere that encompasses areas such as Canada‚ Alaska and much of Siberia in Russia. The word tundra refers to a vast treeless plain and is thought to have been adopted from the Finnish word tunturia (Arctic). Tundras are characterized by permanently frozen ground cover known as permafrost. The Arctic tundra is characterized by low precipitation and dry winds with
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G eo Factsheet www.curriculum-press.co.uk Number 225 Development versus conservation in Alaska’s Arctic wilderness: the case of the oil and gas industry Fig. 1 Oil prices 2006-08. Introduction The Arctic wilderness areas of Alaska are facing potential dramatic new changes as a result of the rising world price of oil and gas (Fig. 1). In Autumn 2003 the world price of standard crude oil was $25 per barrel. By July 2006 the price had risen to $75 per barrel but by late 2007 the price had rocketed
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