The Arctic Factors In The Arctic: The Gloomy Arctic

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The Gloomy Arctic In winter, the sun never rises in the arctic because light rays are bent by the atmosphere, however the sun can be seen only when it is below the horizon. Imagine how it would be like without sunlight for 6 straight months during midwinter as shown in the picture below on the last page; it’s breathtaking. The reason it is because the earth’s rotate to the plane of its orbit around the sun. In summer time, there are 24 hours sunlight a day, which is usually called “the midnight sun” that causes the icebergs/sea ice to melt due to global warming and causing havoc. Although the temperatures there are at the lowest of -50% in the higher latitude until then with the global warming, temperatures has increased. Global warming in the arctic is being affected by the changing …show more content…

Ice is one of the major abiotic factor in the arctic, without the ice, many organism such as polar bears would be left without a place to live and even with seals, it would be unsafe for them because without ice, there will be no places to hide from predators. Other factors are permafrost, strong winds, poor soil, long winters and short summer. Biotic factors of the arctic are also included as living things that affects the organism as well as it almost similar to the Texas’s wetland biotic factor. Although the animals consuming the organism and organism that are consumed. The Difference between San Antonio The Arctic Global warming- droughts, flooding Global Warming- Arctic temp. Increasing, ice melting. High temp, gets really hot during summer and cold during winter sometime warm 24 hour sunlight Short summer, long winter Different habitat Different habitat Wildlife animals Marine mammals/wild life animals 5 type of wetlands Sunlight is at the horizon Similar biotic factor Similar biotic

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