Arctic Animals Facts Ks1

Animals as large as whales and polar bears come to feed on them.

Arctic animals facts ks1. In winter when more of the ocean freezes over and thick snow covers the land animals and plants have adapted to keep warm and survive. Walruses and humpback whales live in the Arctic ocean. These include mites tiny crustaceans springtails small insect-like creatures midges and other insects.

Animals that live in the Arctic include. Polar Bears Arctic Foxes Musk Oxen Arctic Terns Gyrfalcons and Puffins. Arctic Wolves have a good sense of smell hearing and sight.

They will eat arctic fox arctic hares lemmings seals but. Theres also more information about the regions animals here. The free printable pack includes the following animals from the polar regions.

Arctic Animals A List of Arctic Wildlife Antarctic animals here - south polar. The Arctic summer has daylight 24 hours a day. The Arctic and Antarctica also have different animals - the main difference being that polar bears can only be found in the Arctic and.

You can find out about the animals and plants of the Arctic further down the page. How the polar bear is adapted to survive there and the threat that the Arctic faces in relation to global warming. The arctic has many large land animals including reindeer musk ox lemmings arctic hares arctic terns snowy owls squirrels arctic fox and polar bears.

Tes classic free licence. What does Arctic Fox Eat. Several small invertebrates animals without backbones live on Antarctica.