Starter quiz
- What continent is Antarctica closest to?
- Oceania
- Asia
- South America ✓
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- How many countries are there in Antarctica?
- 0 ✓
- 1
- 3
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- What is tourism?
- People moving somewhere else to live
- People going on holiday or visiting an area for a short time ✓
- People changing jobs
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- Where is the coldest and windiest place on earth?
- Arctic
- Mount Everest
- Antarctica ✓
- Greenland
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- When is the Antarctic summer?
- November - March ✓
- May - Spetember
- all year round
- never
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- Which type of penguin can survive the Antarctic winter?
- Chinstrap Penguin ✓
- Emperor Penguin
- No penguins stay for the winter
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Exit quiz
- When did people first start to visit Antarctica?
- Over 1 million years ago
- 1,000 years ago
- 500 years ago
- 250 years ago ✓
- the last 10 years
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- Why did the first people visit Antarctica?
- research
- mining
- whaling ✓
- tourism
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- Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Roald Amundsun ✓
- Edmund Hillary
- Neil Armstrong
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- Which of these is not a reason why people visit Antarctica today?
- To live there permanently ✓
- Research
- Tourism
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- What is the Antarctic Treaty?
- An agreement made between different countries to protect Antarctica ✓
- A festival to celebrate Antarctica
- The government of Antarctica
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- Which of these is not a rule of the Antarctic Treaty?
- Protecting the plants and animals
- No wars allowed
- no mining for gas and oil
- All animals are allowed to come onto the continent ✓
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Key learning points
- Due to its inaccessibility, the continent of Antarctica has only been visited and explored over the past 250 years.
- People first went to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica hunting for whales, then explorers raced to the South Pole.
- The Antarctic Treaty is there to protect the continent and states no one country can claim it as its own.
- There is no permanent population in Antarctica but scientists and tourists visit the continent.
Common misconception
Antarctica has its own government.
Antarctica is protected by the Antarctic Treaty.
Keywords
Whaling - Whaling is the hunting of whales for oil and meat
Antarctic treaty - The Antarctic Treaty is a set of rules signed by 54 countries to protect Antarctica
Tourism - Tourism means people travelling to a different place from where they live for a holiday
Research - Work done to collect information in an organised way in order to increase understanding about a topic is known as research
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