2007-02-07 11:10:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Arctic is on top of the world and has polar bears.
Antarctic is at the bottom and has penguins.
2007-02-07 11:16:55 · answer #1 · answered by dawleymouse 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Arctic is North, where you find the bears
Antarctic is South, where you find penguins
Arctic Bears
Antarctic Penguins
Notice the similarity in word length. That should help you remember.
Don't go getting all clever and putting Polar Bears. That doesn't work. The arctic isn't called the arctic because of polar bears.
In fact, the genus URSUS ARCTOS doesn't mean polar bear, it means brown bear.
The polar bear is URSUS MARITIMUS. So don't go getting it mixed up
Bears is Arctic, Penguins is Antarctic.
Big words and little words
2007-02-07 12:01:51 · answer #2 · answered by BIMS Lewis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short answer: about 7,900 miles.
The long answer: Antarctica is the name of a continent which covers the South Pole. The Arctic is the name of the ocean in the equivalent area at the North Pole. You can still walk on it though - the Arctic is frozen.
2007-02-07 11:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Antartica is a continent and the arctic is an ocean, that is the main difference. Don't really know what you mean.
2007-02-07 11:14:53 · answer #4 · answered by tsjt_tsjt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is the version between arc and antarc, as in Atlas and Antiatlas.. the comparable yet different. Antarctica is a land mass even nonetheless lots of that's buried decrease than snow and ice. The Arctic is in simple terms frozen ocean, without land mass. So i assume that would desire to be a significant distinction; they're the two especially chilly at cases, long days and nights.
2016-12-17 04:50:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Arctic is at the northern pole of the world and Antartica is at the southern pole.
2007-02-07 11:14:05 · answer #6 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The North pole is the arctic and is a huge ice floe, The antarctic is the south pole and a continent in it's own right.
2007-02-11 06:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by Mark S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One is in the north (artic) one is in the south(antartic)
South is colder
South has more turbulent seas and stronger winds
South has land mass, north doesn't (it's just ice)
South has penguins (pretty much only penguins and fishes except for the odd whale, seal or sea lion)
North has bears,wolves, a bit of veg, whales, seals, sea lions, waruses etc.
South has more ice (90% of worl'd water supply comes from here)
North covers a wider area
South is surrounded by sea
North is surrounded partly by land
Eskimos and Innuits live in the North, No one lives in the South
The list s endless but this enough to get you started.
2007-02-07 11:20:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
From (True) Pole to Pole, just over 20,000 km (12,500 miles).
From 90° North to 90° South.
Arctic in the North, Antarctic in the South
2007-02-07 13:23:58 · answer #9 · answered by Norrie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arctic is north and antarctic is south and apart from the rather interesting fact that penguins only live in the antarctic that is about it
2007-02-07 11:20:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋