The Polar Ice Caps Are The Polar Ice Caps Are Melting!Melting!

My Earth Day project about how the My Earth Day project about how the polar ice caps are melting and polar polar ice caps are melting and polar

bears are going extinct.bears are going extinct.By: Grace Wilkins By: Grace Wilkins

Where is it happening:Where is it happening:

The polar ice caps are melting in the North Pole

They are also melting in Antarctica

The glaciers of Greenland are melting rapidly too

To whom is it effecting:To whom is it effecting:

The polar bears are being effected

Because the ice caps are melting, polar bears’ habit is growing smaller

There for the will either go extinct or have to adapt

Why/how it’s happening:Why/how it’s happening:

One reason why it is happening is, the Greenhouse effect

Another is burning fossil fuels (like driving)

Scientists predict that the Arctic/Polar ice caps will melt entirely in 20 years

Why you should do something Why you should do something about it:about it:

One reason is that when the ice caps melt, the ocean raises

If the ocean raises, the ocean could cover continents

Also polar bears could go extinct (or adapt)

Why you should do something Why you should do something about it:about it:(Continued)(Continued)

•That is because they can’t swim for long and the would end up drowning because they had no where to rest

• Think about it: if the ice caps are melting then the Earth is getting warmer, and that can’t be good!

How to do something about it:How to do something about it:

First of all, do anything you can to stop Global Warming

Global Warming is a big reason the ice caps are melting

How to do something about it:How to do something about it: (Continued)(Continued)

•Second of all, you can take public transit or bike instead of driving a car

• Or you we can all start to stop using factories

Final Motivation:Final Motivation:

If we don’t do anything about it, we could be swimming majorly in 20 years

Also polar bears will go extinct if we don’t do anything

The polar bears thank The polar bears thank you…you…

And so do I!!!And so do I!!!

SourcesSources

Websites:• Lovgren, Stefan. "Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level?." National

Geographic News April 26, 2004 1. Web.22 Apr 2009.

<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0420_040420_earthday.html>.

• Schmitt, Jerome . "Will the Ice Caps Melt?." American Thinker January 22, 2008 1. Web.22 Apr 2009. <http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/will_the_ice_caps_melt.html>.

• King, Mary. "Arctic ice cap will disappear in 20 years, say scientists." Enviormental Graffiti. Wed, Sep 5, 2007. 22 Apr 2009 <http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/arctic-ice-cap-could-disappear-in-20-years/264>.

Happy Earth Day!Happy Earth Day!