Question: Which pole is located in Antarctica?
Answer: South Pole

Question: What ocean surrounds Antarctica?
Answer: Southern Ocean

Question: What is the size of Antarctica?
Answer: 14,000,000 square kilometres

Question: How much of Antarctica is ice covered?
Answer: 98%

Question: Where was the coldest temperature recorded on Earth?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: What was the coldest temperature ever recorded?
Answer: −89.2 °C

Question: On what date was the Earth's coldest temperature recorded?
Answer: 21 July 1983

Question: What is Antarctica topographically ?
Answer: frozen desert

Question: What light caused condition is a serious problem for humans in Antarctica?
Answer: Sunburn

Question: Who wrote a book describing a cold region in 350 B.C.?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: What did authors Hyginus and Apuleious call the South Pole?
Answer: polus antarcticus

Question: What map maker used the name Antarctica in his map of the 2nd century A.D.?
Answer: Marinus of Tyre

Question: What did Chaucer call the area in 1391?
Answer: pol antartik

Question: What was the old French words for the Antarctic?
Answer: pole antartike

Question: In what do some scientists believe ozone depletion may have a role ?
Answer: climatic change

Question: How much cooling can ozone depletion cause over Antarctica?
Answer: 6 °C

Question: What light does ozone absorb?
Answer: ultraviolet radiation

Question: What can the wind changes due to cooling cause in the Antarctic ice?
Answer: accelerated melting

Question: What does ozone depletion cause in the southern atmosphere?
Answer: enhanced polar vortex

Question: Who has research stations in Antarctica?
Answer: Several governments

Question: What is the span of population density per million square kilometers of researchers in Antarctica?
Answer: between 70 and 350

Question: About long long do researchers stay when researching in Antarctica?
Answer: one-year

Question: What station has an Orthodox church representative?
Answer: Bellingshausen Station

Question: When did the Trinity Church begin its posting at Bellinshausen station?
Answer: 2004

Question: What is the southern most continent?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: What is the size of Antarctica in square miles?
Answer: 5,400,000

Question: What is Antarctica's ranking among the continents?
Answer: fifth-largest

Question: How many miles long is Antarctica's coast line?
Answer: 11,165

Question: What sea plankton doe many sea creatures rely on to live?
Answer: phytoplankton

Question: During what season does the emperor penguin breed?
Answer: winter

Question: What breed of penguin lives in Antarctica?
Answer: emperor penguin

Question: What feature does the rockhopper penguin have around its eyes?
Answer: feathers

Question: Which penguin breeds the furterest south of all the penguin breeds?
Answer: Adélie

Question: What is the highest peak in Antarctica?
Answer: Vinson Massif

Question: How high is the Antarctic mountain Vinson Massif?
Answer: 4,892 m

Question: In what mountainous area of Antarctica is Vinson Massif?
Answer: Ellsworth Mountains

Question: What type of volcano was located in 2004 by researchers?
Answer: underwater

Question: What is the Earth's most southern volcano?
Answer: Mount Erebus

Question: When did negotiations start to regulate mining in Antarctica?
Answer: 1983

Question: When was the treaty to regulate mining agreed upon?
Answer: 1988

Question: What group led the fight to prevent mineral development in Antarctica?
Answer: Greenpeace International,

Question: Which two countries refused to ratify the treaty to regulate mineral use in Antarctica?
Answer: Australia and France

Question: What was the alternate treaty offered by Australia and France?
Answer: Madrid Protocol

Question: What did most of Gondwana become when the polar ice melted?
Answer: desert

Question: What plants were abundant during this time?
Answer: pteridosperms

Question: What type of reptiles were common during the early Triassic?
Answer: Synapsids

Question: When did the Antarctic peninsula form?
Answer: Jurassic period

Question: During what period did Gondwana begin to break apart?
Answer: Cretaceous

Question: What astronomical study is important research for Antarctica?
Answer: Meteorites

Question: What is the supposed source of most Antarctica meteorites?
Answer: asteroids

Question: When was the first meteorite found in Antarctica?
Answer: 1912

Question: What expedition found nine meteorites in 1969?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What is it about Antarctic meteorites that is different form meteorites found in other places?
Answer: well-preserved.

Question: What location means that Antarctica get little solar radiation?
Answer: South Pole

Question: In what condition is most water in the Antarctica?
Answer: ice

Question: What is the usual condition of precipitation in the Antarctic?
Answer: snow

Question: What does the massed snow in Antarctica produce?
Answer: giant ice sheet

Question: What are ice streams otherwise called?
Answer: glaciers

Question: Where did the first semi-permanent residents of the Antarctic area live?
Answer: South Georgia

Question: In what year did the sealers start staying on South Georgia?
Answer: 1786

Question: What was the profession of the residents of South Georgia?
Answer: sealers

Question: What was the nationality of most whalers?
Answer: Norwegian

Question: When did explorer Carl Anton Larsen become a British citizen?
Answer: 1910

Question: Where in Antarctica has warming been noticed?
Answer: Antarctic Peninsula

Question: What do some researchers believe to be that cause of this warming?
Answer: carbon dioxide emissions

Question: How much has west Antarctica warmed per decade in the last 5o years?
Answer: 0.1 °C

Question: What is thought to be the cause of glacier outflow?
Answer: inflow of warm water

Question: What is the thinking of the cause  of the Antarctic Peninsula sea level.
Answer: atmospheric warming

Question: What animal was greatly hunted during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Answer: Antarctic fur seal

Question: What did  Sir James Weddell command?
Answer: British sealing expeditions

Question: For whom is the Weddell seal named ?
Answer: Sir James Weddell

Question: What is a very important species in the Southern Ocean?
Answer: Antarctic krill

Question: Why is the krill so important to the Antarctic area?
Answer: important food

Question: When did the Environmental Protocol become effective?
Answer: 1998

Question: What is the main concern of the Protocol?
Answer: conservation

Question: What is seen as a major risk to Antarctica?
Answer: non-native species

Question: What group advises the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting?
Answer: Committee for Environmental Protection

Question: Besides conservation, what is the Environmental Protocol's goal to manage?
Answer: biodiversity

Question: What does the Protocol on Environmental Protection seek to regulate?
Answer: resources

Question: In what year was an agreement reached to ban mining in Antarctica?
Answer: 1998

Question: When will the mining ban be reviewed?
Answer: 2048

Question: What is the major economic activity near Antarctica?
Answer: trading of fish

Question: How many tonnes of fish were reported caught in 2000-01?
Answer: 112,934 tonnes

Question: How do the meteorites found in Antarctica add to knowledge about the solar system?
Answer: better understanding

Question: From where in the solar system could the meteorites have come?
Answer: Moon

Question: Beside rare types of meteorites, what other types of meteorites have been found in Antarctica?
Answer: New types

Question: About what nearby planet could the Antarctic meteorites hold data?
Answer: Mars

Question: What do meteorites absorb that can be used to understand how old the meteorite is?
Answer: cosmic radiation

Question: When did the Larsen-B ice shelf collapse?
Answer: 2002

Question: What Antarctic ice shelf collapsed in 2008?
Answer: Wilkins Ice Shelf