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1. List three features of Antarctica and share them with a partner.

2. Which of the features pose the greatest challenges for those wholive there?

3. Now tell your partner what you’d have to take with you to survive in Antarctica.

4. How would you get to Antarctica? How far away is it?

5. Could we agree on just two characteristics we believe are the greatest challenges to living in Antarctica?

Wings/FlippersFeathers

Coloration

Layer of Fat or Blubber and Living in Colonies

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Physical Characteristics and Body Shape

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Canipe, Steve. gentoo-chick.jpg. 8/25/2001. Pics4Learning. 29 Feb 2008 <http://pics.tech4learning.com>

This adult Adélie penguin has just begun to molt. In another two weeks, it will have all new feathers.

From Sea World

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/cold_penguins.htm

Click on the link above or on the image to the rightfor additional information.

http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/penguin/physical-characteristics.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/rockhoppers-rock/

Click on the links above or on the images to the right for information on all penguin species and their adaptationsfor the environments where they live.