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    The animal that I have chosen to study is the polar bear the Latin name for the polar bear is Urus Maritimus. They are a mammal which means that they give birth to live young and provide milk for their offspring when born (Defenders of wildlife, 2014). The polar bear is a predatory animal and is the top of the food chain in the Artic, its main consumption of food are seals (both bearded and ringed usually) they will also eat walrus and any whale carcasses that may be laying around as they are opportunistic

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    species that is being impacted by climate change is the polar bears. The melting of the polar ice caps has had a devastating impact on the polar bear’s arctic habitat. Their populations are currently being threatened by starvation. Although their major food supply has not decreased, they are endangered due to the loss of the ability to be able to hunt their main food source. The polar bear’s primary prey are

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    A) What is the issue? Who/What is being affected and how? (K/U) In our world today, the most untalked about climate change event that is only getting worse from here is the melting ice caps. As we humans move on our daily lives, we are adding more to the global warming problem, and a majority of the population is not doing anything to solve this problem. For example, when people have the option to carpool, they decide not to, resulting in gas that only needed to be used once

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     which is believed by many to be good enough for the human body to adapt to. its has solar ice caps so if you want to drink water you could use a huge solar reflector to direct the suns light on to the polar ice cap and the it will surely melt. The day/night rhythm is very similar to ours here on Earth: a Mars day is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds Facts about mars! Mars is the only other planet besides Earth that has polar ice caps. Mars has seasons like Earth (4 seasons) Mars has the tallest known mountain

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    Mars possesses polar caps at both poles. Frozen ice accumulates as a thin layer about one meter thick on the north cap in the northern winter only, while the south cap has a permanent ice cover about eight meters thick. (7) The northern polar cap has a diameter of approximately 1,000 kilometers during the northern Mars summer and contains about 1.6 million cubic kilometers of ice. The southern cap has a diameter of 350 kilometers. Both polar caps show spiral cuts, which presently

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    a normal level so then it becomes livable but the bad new is that it could make it hot and to much gets trapped. Humans depend on water for survival. 40% of those people depend on glacial melt for their drinking water. The importance of studying ice cores is to learn about the climate change. Between 1998 - 2005, the hottest years were recorded on Earth.. When water temperatures increase during hurricane season, the wind velocity also increases causing damage. Most people enjoy cruising down the

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    long, but this is not the case. This is why the scientific community calls it global climate change, because it can be hotter in the Summer time and colder in the Winter time. Global climate change occurs naturally over the Earth’s life cycle, hence ice ages, but due to humans after the post industrial period in the past 200 years, the speed of the change has been dramatically accelerated. Global climate change is mostly caused by humans polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, methane and other

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    society came into fruition, the urgency of discovering information on what causes it also came into fruition. Many scientists believe that the acceleration of climate change may have cataclysmic consequences on humanity including: the melting of the polar ice-caps (and the rise of sea levels and loss of animal habitats due to this), a higher frequency of category 4 and 5 hurricanes forming, and an increase in both droughts and heat waves. In retaliation scientists begun extensive research on climate change;

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    The polar bear lives up in the Arctic region where global warming and climate change are melting the ice caps that the bears thrive on. They use the ice as a platform from hunting and rest. The random pocket holes in the ice, where the seals pop up at, is where the polar bear catches its prey. With this reduction of ice, “the abundance of seals, and increases the amount of energy and time needed for hunting,

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    Are Ice Caps Good Or Bad

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    The ice caps are melting at an alarming rate and this mostly due to global warming. The reason why there is global warming is that there is a hole in our ozone layer, which protects living organisms from the harmful rays of the sun. Pollution from factories, cars, and other material that runs on fossil fuels is the main reason for pollution. When the rays of the sun hit the ice caps, the ice caps start to melt and then that causes the sea level to rise, which will cause cities to flood more often

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