Polar+Ice

=POLAR ICE BIOME=

By Greg and Rob


[|Polar Ice Caps Melting]

Native Animals to the Polar Ice Biome
 * Beluga Whale
 * Killer Whale
 * Polar Bears
 * Harbor Seals
 * Penguin [[image:http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/images/ice/kwhale1.jpg width="299" height="108" align="right" caption="Killer Whale"]]
 * Plankton
 * Fish
 * Arctic Fox[[image:http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/assets/images/fox1.jpg align="right" caption="Arctic Fox"]]





Plant:
 * Lichen
 * Cloud berry
 * Arctic Willow
 * Cotton grass
 * Flowers
 * Red Algae
 * Arctic Poppy
 * Reindeer Lichen


 * Arctic Circle region, (Alaska, Greenland, Small parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, Canada, & Russia
 * Below Freezing Temps year round

__Human Impacts on the Biome:__


 * In the Northern Canada area of the biome, the area is allowed to grow naturally. Even though there is tourism, the areas are attempted to be protected and kept from human damage.
 * The northern areas of Sweden, Finland, and Norway are dominated by Norway because Norway "bends" over the tops of Finland and Sweden. People do inhabit the area.
 * In northern Alaska, there is lots of oil, in which 20% is consumed by the USA. The winters are very harsh but the summers bring out beautiful wildlife (waterfowls, etc) when humans are not drilling for oil.
 * Greenland/Denmark has been inhabited by humans for over 5,000 years now. The climate is cold, even during their extended summers.

__Interests:__ Alta, Norway is home to the Alta IF soccer team Greenland's main sport is American Football Canada (Yukon Region) is a very popular tourist attraction as well, being higher up in Canada, more specifically in the Northwest area, bordering Alaska.

__Human impacts/possible futures:__ Three possible futures for this region are termination of certain areas because of scarce population & warmer climate because of global warming, extinction of some organisms because of human impacts (deforestation, oil drilling, etc.), and loss of resources due to termination of areas and organisms.

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