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Thursday 22 June 2017

Antarctica descripton

For literacy we have been learning about Antarctica. We were told to write about Antarctica so we had to find facts about Antarctica. We started learning about Antarctica when we went on a trip to the Antarctic center to learn about explorers the weather and the animals that live in Antarctica. Then we were asked to choose a topic between Animals, explorers and weather and climate. Once we had chosen our topic we were told to write a story about Antarctica before we start on our topic. Here is my writing


introduction
1of 7 contenents, desert
characteristics
Cold 25% bigger than europe
2x the size of  australia,
covered by snow has land underneath,
has 90% of worlds snow .
2500 meters (2.5 km) deep snow.
hard to live.
coldest place on earth.
Surrounded by water.
The south pole can be found there.
Doubles the size because of sea ice
White desert
evaluation
I think that antarctica is a place that you should visit some day


                                      Antarctica
Crisp,white and unwelcoming. Antarctica is considered a desert because it has no rain. It is also 1 of the 7 continents in the world.


Antarctica is 2 times the size of Australia and 25% bigger than Europe. It has some amazing landscape that will blow you away for example massive glaciers and crazy ice platforms that overhang the a white cloudland. Antarctica has an active volcano named Mount erebus, mount erebus first Formed in 1908 and the last eruption was in 2011. Mount erebus also had a plane crash in 1979. A DC-10 with 257 people on board crashed at mount erebus and killed all people on board. Antarctica has 90% of world snow which if you think about is really fascinating because that means that the rest of the world only has 10 percent of the world's fresh water. Antarctica also has 70% of the world's fresh water so If you melted the whole of antarctica the world would have more fre

2 comments:

  1. Hi Joe its me Jesmer Good work! I am amazed of how much effort you put in this work! But can you please make the table smaller it is kinda annoying...

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  2. Josiah!!! Its me Tamani amazing work that you have done it is really good but maybe next time you could of made the plan box smaller
    check my blog to see my writing

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