Marine Creature Project #1

Due Date 1/22/14

*Polar bears and Arctic waters

My furry white colored friend lives in chilly Arctic waters near Alaska, Norway, Greenland, Russia, and

Canada.

*Where they live!

*How they behaveWhat is unique about my animal, is that they are the biggest meat eating animals on land and the biggest

predator on land . Don’t get to close to them! Polar bears don’t migrate, but they do hibernate through the cold

winter in big snow bank dens facing slopes towards the sun, to keep warm during the long winter. Polar Bears are

mammals that live in the icy waters of the Arctic, and their eating habit is it mainly eats seals.

*Diet/food chain

My cream colored creature sure is hungry! He eats Ringed Seals, , beached whales and walruses,

geese, fall berries, and seaweed. That’s a lot of food! Native

Americans in the North eat polar bears and use them for all kinds of need’s. If the polar bear is taken out of that chain, the Native people will have no animal skin to make their

warm coats, or blankets for the harsh winter.

*How they talkThese fluffy and cute animals have pretty unique

behaviors! Polar bears growl or grunt when they are expressing them selves, and hiss or roar when their

frustrated or unhappy.

*Hide!! The Polar bears actual color is a cream color, but when the sun light shines down on it, it turns white. They cover up their soft black noses that I bet are cold, so they can hide from predators

and look like snow.

*A look into the future

Polar bear’s future does not look good. The poor animals’ homes are melting more and more because of

the act of global warming! The summers are longer in the Arctic

which causes the ice to melt, leaving stranded Polar bears with no place to go but land. They can’t survive very long on land because most of the food the Polar bears eat is on ice, which sadly has melted! Man has also been a big impact on the harming of Polar bears. When Oil drilling companies drill into Polar bears’ habitats, they bather the Polar bears and their young cute

cubs. It’s terrific news to know the government put a stop to it by a law that says you can no longer kill polar

bears!

. Something I didn’t know about Polar bears is that they get their name because they live in the North Pole? And they weigh up to 1,000 lbs!

*Fast Facts

*What I usedBook: Polar Bears by: Dorothy Patent Copyright date 2000 City published Minneapolis by Carolrnoda Books. Pages 13, 17,18,21, 4, 6, 8, 18,

Book: Polar Bears by : Erika Shores copyright date 2006 by Capstone Press City published: Mankato, Minnesota. Pages 19, 13, 9, 5

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Book: Save the polar Bears by Sarah Eason copyright date 2009 City published East 21st street New York by The Rosen Publishing Group Pages 6-7, 8-9

Book: Polar Bears by Stuart A. Kallen copyright date 1998 City published Pegaton Towers Minneapolis Minisota by Abdo Consulting Group