Geography seeks to identify, analyze, and explain how regions change over space and time, how physical processes influence ecosystems and how human processes contribute to changes in those ecosystems. Objective Students will assess what they already know about Antarctica, and begin to identify, research and position new Antarctic features on a map of the continent. There are cities in Antarctica. You will find polar bears in Antarctica. Antarctica is a continent covered by ice and snow, just like the Arctic.
Daylight lasts for six months at the South Pole.
There are rivers and volcanoes in Antarctica. There is water under nearly all the ice. Penguins live only in Antarctica. Antarctica is a territory of the United States. Ask students to file the quiz in their Antarctic Logbooks for later reference.