Starter quiz
- Where is the North Pole located?
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Africa
- Arctic ✓
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- What is the Earth tilted on which creates the seasons?
- Equator
- Poles
- Axis ✓
- Angles
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- Which hemisphere is the North Pole located in?
- Northern hemsiphere ✓
- Southern Hemisphere
- Eastern Hemisphere
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- How many continents are there?
- 3
- 5
- 7 ✓
- 9
- 11
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- Which of these continents are not in the Northern hemisphere?
- North America
- Europe
- Antarctica ✓
- Oceania ✓
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- Which continent is coldest?
- Antarctica ✓
- Europe
- North America
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Exit quiz
- What is the Arctic circle?
- An imaginary line around the middle of Earth
- A line which Earth sits on
- A line of longitude
- An imagined circle around the North Pole that surrounds the Arctic ✓
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- What is the Arctic surrounded by?
- ocean
- land ✓
- mountains
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- What is sea ice?
- parts of the sea which used to come from a glacier
- parts of the sea which are frozen ✓
- ice which has melted in the sea
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- What is the key word for the definition 'this is ice which never thaws, even in summer time'?
- Sea ice
- temporary ice
- permanent ice ✓
- ice sheets
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- What is the midnight sun?
- the 24 consecutive hours of sunlight during the Arctic or Antarctic summer ✓
- when the moon is so bright, it looks like the sun
- when the sun never comes out
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- When does Arctic experience winter?
- November to March ✓
- May to September
- All year round
- never
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The Arctic Circle is an imagined circle around the North Pole that surrounds the area known as the Arctic.
- Much of the Artic Ocean around the North Pole is frozen sea ice, two to three metres thick, but this reduces in summer.
- The northern edges of three continents: North America, Europe and Asia, can be found within the Arctic Circle.
- The Arctic Summer has almost continuous daylight and the winter almost continuous darkness.
Common misconception
The Arctic is just at the North Pole.
The Arctic is all the area within the Arctic circle, which includes parts of Europe, North America and Asia.
Keywords
Arctic circle - The most northerly major line of latitude.
Arctic ocean - The smallest of the world’s main oceans, much of it is frozen during its winter months.
Permanent ice - This is ice which never thaws, even in summer time.
Midnight sun - The 24 consecutive hours of sunlight during the Arctic or Antarctic summer.
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