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What is special about the 21st December in the Northern hemisphere?
It is the winter solstice. The Shortest day of the year. In some places, the sun does not come up at all.
What is another name for the Northern Lights?
The Aurora Borealis
What causes the northern lights?
Charged particles from the sun hitting the earths atmosphere.
Which pole is the arctic?
The North Pole
What is the main diet of a polar bear?
Seals
What is the difference between mittens and gloves?
Gloves have places to put your fingers. Mittens just cover the whole hand.
Where do penguins live? Arctic or Antarctic?
Antarctic. (South pole)
What is the name of the subject where we learn about the earth, the poles, continents and countries?
Geography
What is climate change and what causes it?
Climate change is the world getting hotter. It is caused by the gasses humans put into the air when we make energy. The gasses act like a blanket.
What is the name of the people who live in the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska?
Inuits. (Not eskimos)
Which country were the people from who first went to the South Pole?
Norway.
What was the name of the British explorer who tried to be the first to get to the South pole?
Captain Scott.
What do we call the moon when no shadow is being cast on it?
A full moon.
How many earths could you fit between the earth and the moon?
30
If we say the moon is waxing, is it getting bigger every night or smaller?
Bigger
What is the name of the first man on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
