Polar Ice CapsTony Coronado Also Kathy and Noor.

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What exactly are polar ice caps???

Good question me, polar ice caps are sheets of ice found by the North and South poles. They form due to their regions not getting enough heat from the sun. The most important physical and chemical factors would have to be altitude, climate and weather, and temperature.They’re pretty cold too, if you haven’t already figured that out.

2011 Precipitation & Temperature of Polar Ice Caps

Not mine btw, I didn’t know how to do a graph on here, credit in the sources.

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Animals, Algae and a kinda food web.Animals● Beluga Whale● Penguins● Killer Whales● Harbor Seals● Polar Bears

PlantsIt’s ice sooo, NO PLANTS. Just some algae here and there.Penguins and seals can both be eaten by whales and seals just by polar bears by the way, hence the sad seal.Boy, that was dark,

The Polar Bear! or the more fancy, Ursus maritimus.

First off, no, they do not drink Coca-Cola™, polar bears are these fascinating creatures that are the sister specie of the brown bear. They have adapted to cold temperatures and ofter move across, ice, snow and water. Their diet consists of seals, sad seals. The downside is that the polar bear populations are actually declining drastically due to climate change, the ice caps are melting, they’re being forced off their land. Hopefully, the polar bears won’t go extinct.

Algae, or Pediastrum boryanum

Again, no plants in ice, so we got to deal with algae. There’s not even much algae in polar ice caps, the only thing helping them is the sun, other than that, it’s just food for the fishes and water bears. What’s a water bear, you say? In short, algae is pretty much uselessin the polar ice caps, next slide, please.

(jeez, that thing is creepy)

The Trouble with Polar Ice Caps.

Due to increase in temperature, the caps have been melting, remember back to the polar bears? It’s such a huge impact, it affects all organisms on Earth because the ice caps help regulate sea levels and the temperature. All not due to global warming by the way, it’s just a myth, hehe… *gulp*But in all seriousness, it is a problemthat needs to be addressed and fixedor else there will be no more ice caps.

The Solution to Saving the Ice Caps.

It’ll honestly take forever for all the ice caps to melt but it doesn’t mean we can’t preserve as it is. Basically, and as corny and clichéd as it sounds, we need to save energy, burn less fossil fuels, generate electricity. With the technology we have today, I doubt we can’t do it. The ice caps will be here for a while, and we should be able to keep it that way. Go green, save the planet, insert overused hippie line here.Go polar bears and polar ice caps.

Sources

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/ice.htmhttp://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/polar-ice-caps-temperature-melting-effects-facts.html#lessonhttp://www.eoearth.org/view/article/162303/http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/polar-bear

After having read what I wrote down.Thanks again guys.