Warm air can also rise to form clouds, and blizzard snows, as it drifts up a mountainside. Blizzards can cause power outages and make temperatures inside of homes drop dangerously low. Strong winds combined with a temperature just below freezing create a miserable chill factor. A chill factor is what the human body ‘’feels’’ rather than what the actual temperature is. This dangerous condition can result in frostbite or hypothermia, which can be deadly.
Canada has very cold, bitter winters some parts of Canada are steppe. The U.S. and Canada are some what the same in Alaska most of the state is tundra like half the country in Canada. Also the US and Canada are mostly humid continental and our highlands like in the U.S. the Rockies and Appalachians and for Canada there Rockies and laurnatan highlands are cool or cold year around. The US and Canada have almost the same climate in parts of each country but also very different in some parts as
WILDLIFE IN THE TAIGA: The taiga holds many endangered species including the grizzly bear, the Siberian crane, the wood bison, the Siberian tiger and the beaver. Plants besides the evergreens include the Balsalmic fir, the Black spruce, the Douglas fir, the Eastern red cedar, the Jack pine and many more. Because of the extreme cold and low precipitation (12-33 inches per year),in the taiga, the plants have a hard time surviving. The taiga has soil similar to the tundra’s. Many animals use the trees here for shelter including the bald eagle, our national bird.
First of all it is a smaller country than its neighbor , about the size of Maryland and shaped like a horseshoe on its side with two main peninsulas, one in the North and the other in the South. Haiti also controls several nearby small islands. Numerous rivers and streams cross the plains and mountainous areas, carrying torrential flows in the rainy season and but barely a trickle in the dry season. So there is either too much water or too little water at any period of time. A range of mountains separates the two countries.
Canada’s Arctic is one of the few places left on earth that is essentially untamed by modern civilization. It contains many unique species, natural wonders such as the Northern lights, ice sheets that are over 29 cubic km of ice. For most of the year this great land is frozen and uninhabitable by humans aside from the Inuit people, the Inuit have been living amongst the ice since the beginning of recorded history. We know this from the oral stories that the Inuit have told over the years and the records that early explorers such as Robert Peary who in the late 1800’s lead many escapades into the Arctic and brought their stories back with them. With their help Europeans (now Canadians) were able to settle in some areas of the Arctic allowing
3. The coldest temperature ever recorded was a negative 126.9 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Station, Antarctica. 4. Between evaporation and falling as precipitation, a droplet of water may travel thousands of miles. 5.
One obvious difference is food. For the Inuit, the most important thing is the people adapt to their lifestyle in the coldest and most unforgiving environments. The Inuit are the people who originally lived in the Arctic, so the harsh Arctic
A desert is defined as an arid land that receives less than 250 millimeters of rainfall or snow per year where a glacier is defined as a semi permanent or perennially frozen body of ice consisting largely of re-crystallized snow that moves under the pull of gravity (Murck et al., 2008). Now that we know a glacier is defined as a mostly permanent frozen body of ice, this does not mean glaciers don’t encounter change. Glaciers are in fact constantly changing in several ways. Snow that falls on the glaciers surface cause the glacier to change and glaciers will grow and shrink depending on changes in temperature and precipitation (Murck et al., 2008). Before glaciers can move and change they first have to be developed.
In the summer the arctic fox lives in the tundra at the edge of forest, while in the winter it can be found on ice floes where its white coat serves as camouflage. Its den is usually a burrow in a hillside or a bank and it has more than one entrance. In the winter the fox often makes its den in a snow bank. As global warming takes its toll and the snow-line continues to recede further and further north, the range of the arctic fox shrinks, too, giving way to the northward advance of the red fox. The arctic fox has been losing a lot of it’s land to the red fox.
Speech – “Ice-breaking Journeys” Good evening all. As this is my Ice Breaker speech, I thought before I started on it, I’d look up the origins of the term Ice Breaker. Was it something to do with drinks? Well, for those that didn’t know, it harks back to the Northern Hemisphere roots of the language. In winter, rivers often freeze over.