Arctic

People call the Arctic the area around the North Pole, the northernmost point on Earth. While the South Pole is located on the continent Antarctic, the North Pole only consists of water. This Arctic Ocean is frozen throughout the whole year.

It's hard to say exactly where the Arctic is located. A lot of researchers think that there is a specific border, where even in July it doesn't get warmer than 10 degrees Celsius. That is about as cold as a fall day in Germany. The border doesn't only go through the Pacific Ocean, but also part of North America, and Europa and Asia.

In the Arctic it gets really cold, almost everything is covered in snow. But in the southern part of the Arctic, the snow and the ice melt away in the summer. That is where you're able to find a small number of plants. In general, very few animals or humans live in the Arctic.

For a long time, people in Europe didn't even know about the Arctic, until around the 19th century when people started to venture further north. until they reached the north pole, claims a group of North Americans. You cannot prove that this happened though. But then a Russian professor flew to the Arctic and he landed this was the first time that people knew that someone went to the Arctic.

Global warming is strongly affecting the Arctic; a lot of ice melts there. Because of that, sea level is rising all over the world. A lot of small ice chunks are floating all over the water. Because of that, it is a lot harder for ice bears to move around freely on the ice.