Antarctica: The Heaven For Marine Animals
The interesting environment of Antarctica
Antarctica is one of the two sides of the planet top and bottom without its tilt. Antarctica is a really big chunk of land there is so much that we don’t know about this place it’s a huge continent. Some people speculate that there is life in Antarctica and there is life on Antarctica but human tribes that we know we aren’t aware of at this moment altho there are scientists in Antarctica who research astronomy. Antarctica’s weather is quite unique, to say the least, compared to the rest of the continents it’s an ice-cold place covered with snow and a big chunk of land. Though even if it’s really cold there are some green spots appearing on Antarctica and it’s mostly because of climate change which is part of greenhouse gasses so it affects a lot of the earth’s surface temperature.
Adding some greenhouse gasses is good for it, but if you add others that don’t go along with it, it becomes pretty bad. Also, did you know an iceberg recently broke away from the “Brunt Ice Shelf” a massive iceberg in Antarctica the iceberg is slightly smaller than the size of Los Angeles it’s been like that for about six months now and it is still over those six months stayed in that same area?
And the same iceberg has rotated next to the western tip of the other iceberg the “Brunt Ice Shelf”. And did you know that the “Brunt Ice Shelf” was so unbelievably unstable that the ”British Antarctic Survey” had to close its bridge and replace it about 12 miles away in 2017?
Also, some people say that Antarctica is a tundra which is not true because according to Merriam Webster because she says that a tundra is a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions consisting of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil and has dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs. Did you know that Antarctica was a place where lots of dinosaurs lived when they died some left bones from millions of years ago that are embedded into the crust of the ice.
Antarctica is full of surprises and fascinating things and even maybe in the future, there will be more interesting things to come. Did you know that you can actually visit Antarctica it comes with a hefty price of 10,000 dollars for a two-week cruise so it might not be the best option for your vacation though it would be a very memorable memory.
RELATED STORIES:
- https://interestingengineering.com/science/9-myths-about-the-frozen-continent-of-antarctica
- https://interestingengineering.com/video/the-many-secrets-of-the-mysterious-antarctica
- https://interestingengineering.com/science/antarctica-is-turning-green-but-what-are-the-implications
- https://interestingengineering.com/science/an-iceberg-the-size-of-la-nearly-missed-major-collision-in-antarctica
- https://interestingengineering.com/science/worlds-largest-iceberg-just-shifted-off-of-antarctica
TAKE ACTION:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
- https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/antarctica/
- https://www.nasa.gov/analogs/nsf
