Polar/Arctic Internet
Scavenger Hunt

created 12/05
  • Read the questions and click the polar bear to find the answers.
  • Remember, you will have to read the text on the webpages to find the answers. Use your navigation skills to scroll the page.
  • Click the back arrow on your webpage window to return to this page.
  • Record your answers on the worksheet provided. pdf worksheet

Polar Regions

Describe the Polar Region - HINT: "Easier"

The Arctic

What is the Arctic?

How do animals in the Arctic adapt to the cold conditions in the winter?

Reindeer

What is another name for the reindeer?

What does a reindeer eat?

Both male and female reindeers have _______________. What happens to these each year?

Walrus

Where does the walrus live?

Walrus are hunted by what 2 polar animals?
What do walrus eat?
How much can a walrus weigh?

Polar Bears

What are the 2 types of fur Polar Bears have?

What color skin do polar bears have?
Unlike any other bear, what is different about polar bears?

Where do polar bears live? Where do they NOT live?

Penguins

What is the largest and the smallest Penguin? How tall or short are each?

How are penguins bodies designed?

What is a group of penguins called?

Polar Pairs

Play the "Polar Pairs" game. Choose animal from this game and describe a fact (s) you learned about it.

Polar Games

Play The Wild Sled Ride & Ice Toss Frenzy

Optional Activities:
Use KidPix or another drawing software program and illustrate the polar region from what you learned in this web hunt. Be sure to include some animals, too. Label your drawing.

You are an Arctic animal. Write a descriptive story about what your life is like in the polar region. Use illustrations to describe your story.

Created by Tracy Murdach
Lyon School Technology Facilitator
December 2005

Polar Bear clip art source

www.mbif.net - background