Inhoudsopgave
Wat is het poolklimaat?
poolklimaat – Het klimaat dat wordt gekenmerkt door de geringe hoeveelheid neerslag gedurende het hele jaar en de constante lage temperaturen, met korte, koele zomers.
Waar is er een poolklimaat?
Dit heet de Pooldag. In het binnenland van Groenland en op Antarctica heerst een poolklimaat, op de eilanden van Canada en noord Rusland heerst een toendraklimaat. In het poolklimaat komen alleen maar mossen en stenen voor omdat het er te koud is om te groeien.
How is the Antarctic tundra similar to the Arctic?
The Antarctic tundra is very similar to the Arctic, only it is located on Antarctica and its surrounding islands such as the Falkland Islands. Antarctica is mainly ice and very dry, so little land supports life. Much of Antarctica’s resources are either predicted or inaccessible because of the inability to explore…
What are the key facts of Antarctica?
Antarctica covers more than 14 million km 2 (5,400,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest continent, about 1.3 times as large as Europe. The coastline measures 17,968 km (11,165 mi) and is mostly characterised by ice formations, as the following table shows:
What is the Antartic Treaty?
Antarctica is governed by parties to the Antarctic Treaty System. Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, and thirty-eight have signed it since then. The treaty prohibits military activities, mineral mining, nuclear explosions and nuclear waste disposal. It supports scientific research and protects the continent’s ecology.
What was the original name of Antarctica?
Matthias Ringmann called Terra Australis the Ora antarctica (antarctic land) in 1505. The long-imagined (but undiscovered) south polar continent was originally called Terra Australis, sometimes shortened to Australia as seen in a woodcut illustration titled “Sphere of the winds”, contained in an astrological textbook published in Frankfurt in 1545.