The subject of my paper is Harp Seals. I choose this topic because I find it interesting how their senses help them survive the harsh environment. I also chose it because I love Harp Seals‚ they are the cutest and fluffiest Arctic animals. Harp Seals‚ also called Pagophilus groenlandicus (in means "ice-loving seal of Greenland)‚ is one of the nineteen species of marine mammals in the family of True Seals. (Hogan‚ 2010) They form the group of marine mammals known as pinnipeds. Their ancestors were
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For a long time researchers have been trying to retrieve data on Grizzly bear diets. It is clear that all Grizzly bears have different habitats‚ food sources‚ and outside pressures such as human development. Although this is true Grizzly bears have been seen to commonly have the same diets over the course of seasonal shifts. For example‚ Grizzly bear diet and use of seasonally abundant‚ nutrient-rich food sources has been well documented throughout their range in North America. A wide diversity of
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that the North Pole “The Arctic”‚ the South Pole “The Antarctic”‚ but snow and ice are also found at many other locations on Earth (All about the cryosphere). The Arctic consist of ocean surrounded by continental land and masses and islands‚ the central of Arctic Ocean is covered by snow and ice on land most of the years (NSIDC). The sea ice mostly grows in the winter and melting and shrinking in the summer. In the Arctic Ocean‚ the frozen ground and the border of Arctic Ocean covered by a thick
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Hudson‚ his son John and eleven other crew members sailed from England on the Hopewell ship. They went past the Greenland and towards the North Pole. Hudson and his crew hoped if they would find an easier way to get from England to the Far East of the Arctic Ocean. They kept on trying but unfortunately Hudson and his crew couldn’t find the Northeast Passage. The Muscovy Company didn’t send him to anymore explorations. In 1607 Hudson moved to Holland and sailed for a Dutch East India Company on the ship
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have a greener earth and slow the global warming. Environmental and social implications regarding climate changes Climate changes are affecting the earth worldwide. According to Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts article “The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes‚ the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia” (NY Times‚ 2007). Ice glaciers are melting and sea levels are increasing. The climate change
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The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a cetacean inhabiting the marine arctic and is found throughout the arctic seas as well as smaller seas such as the Beaufort Sea‚ the Chukchi Sea‚ the Bering Sea‚ Cook Inlet‚ and several other seas (Frost and Suydam‚ 2010). This species is migratory and will migrate to shallower coastal waters during the summer‚ but as winter approaches they travel back to the northern icy waters (Goetz et al.‚ 2012). Beluga’s feed on small fish‚ as well as squid‚ octopus
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Oxygen – Carbon dioxide Cycle The Carbon Dioxide- Oxygen Cycle relates to the relationship between Carbon Dioxide [CO2] breathing plants and Oxygen [O2] breathing life forms. All oxygen-breathing life forms take in Oxygen and exhale CO2. Plants take in the CO2 and use it in their photosynthesis process and in turn give off oxygen. The Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle is a continuously occurring process whereby animals inhale Oxygen and then exhale carbon dioxide‚ and plants use the CO2 and "exhale"
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it took a mere 80 years for the biggest city on the planet situated North to the Arctic Circle to be built on the shore of the Kola bay. For many years this ice-free port was a leading Soviet freight port‚ a base for fishing fleets‚ a major naval base‚ and the main home port of the Russian nuclear submarine fleet. During World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War)‚ Murmansk served as a port for the arctic convoys‚ and after the war became the Soviet Union’s most important submarine base
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The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at places north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the solstice (June 21 in the north and December 21 in the south) and given fair weather the sun is visible for the full 24 hours. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the farther towards either pole one goes. Although approximately defined by the polar circles‚ in practice
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de Fuca‚ and the Gulf of Maine including the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; Canada and the United States dispute how to divide the Beaufort Sea and the status of the Northwest Passage but continue to work cooperatively to survey the Arctic continental shelf; US works closely with Canada to intensify security measures for monitoring and controlling legal and illegal movement of people‚ transport‚ and commodities across the international border; sovereignty dispute with Denmark over Hans
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