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Can science save your life?

Gerry Bailey

Crabtree Publishing Company

www.crabtreebooks.com

Science to the Rescue

Alone in the

Arctic

Crabtree Publishing Company

www.crabtreebooks.com

1-800-387-7650

PMB 59051, 350 Fifth Ave. 616 Welland Ave.

th

Floor, St. Catharines, ON

New York, NY 10118 L2M 5V6

Published by Crabtree Publishing in 2014

Author: Gerry Bailey

Illustrator: Leighton Noyes

Editor: Shirley Duke

Proofreader: Kathy Middleton

Production coordinator and

Prepress technician: Tammy McGarr

Print coordinator: Margaret Amy Salter

All rights reserved. No part of this publication

may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

or transmitted in any form or by any means,

electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or

otherwise, without the prior written permission

of the copyright owner.

Copyright 2013

BrambleKids Ltd.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Bailey, Gerry, author

Alone in the Arctic / Gerry Bailey.

(Science to the rescue)

Includes index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-7787-0428-7 (bound).--ISBN 978-0-7787-0434-8 (pbk.).--

ISBN 978-1-4271-7540-3 (html).--ISBN 978-1-4271-7546-5 (pdf)

1. Arctic regions--Juvenile literature. I. Title.

G614.B35 2014 j919.8 C2014-900920-8

C2014-900921-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

CIP available at Library of Congress

Photographs:

All images are Shutterstock.com unless otherwise stated.

Cover - PSD Photography Pg 1 FotoYakov

Pg 2/3 FotoYakov Pg 6 AridOcean

Pg 6/7 Incredible Arctic Pg 8/9 ECOSTOCK

Pg 8 AleksandrN AleksandrN

Pg 9 (l) Daniel Hebert (m) ericlefrancais

(r) Sergey Uryadnikov Pg 11 FotoYakov

(t) Barry Blackburn (b) Andrey Shtanko

Pg 12 Dimos Pg 12/13 - Tyler Olsen

Pg 14/15 NightOwl Pg 15 Sergey Nivens

Pg 16 FotoYakov (m) Andresr

Pg 17 (t) hainaultphoto (b) Marteric

Pg 19 Ernest Manewal / SuperStock

Pg 20/21 Tyler Olsen Pg 21 Galen Rowell/

Corbis Pg 22 Nick Cobbing/Alamy Pg 23 NASA /

Wikipedia.org Pg 26/27 Jan Martin Will

Pg 29 Bob Krist/Corbis Pg 30 FotoYakov

(inset) outdoorsman Pg 32 (t) Andrey

Siradchuk (m) BigRoloImages (b) Tyler Olsen

Icicles frieze - Roman Malyshev

Printed in Canada/032014/BF20140212

ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-641-4 (e-book)

Synchred Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

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Contents

Joes story 4

Where is the Arctic? 7

What animals live there? 9

Exactly how cold? 11

What is an iceberg? 14

How do you build an igloo? 16

Fish of the Arctic 18

How do you catch sh? 19

Who lives in the Arctic? 20

What happens if the ice cap melts?

Why is Joe there? 29

Glossary 30

Learn more 31

Index 32

Joes story

Hi! My name is Joe , and I have

a story to tell you

a real adventure!

I got stranded on the ice.

I thought I wouldnt make it

back to the safety of the

base but I did! Just barely!

I managed to survive with

the help of all the science

I know. But its a long story.

This story gets really chilly!

Everyone huddle up,

and Ill begin.

My story is set here in the

Arctic. I imagine you know

where that isthe most

northern part of the

globe surrounding the

North Pole.

Its very cold up here.

Ice and snow stretches

into the distance as far as

the eye can seeice and

snow, and not much else.

North Pole

United

States

Norway

Finland

Russia

Greenland

Canada

South Pole

Where is the Arctic?

The Arctic is the region

around the North

Pole.

There is no land there, only

sea and ice. In fact, the Arctic

is a large frozen ocean, or ice

sheet , that never

completely melts.

The largest ice shelf in the

Arctic is the Ward Hunt Ice

Shelf . This single piece of ice

is the size of 11,000 soccer

elds. However, this ice

shelf is beginning to melt

and break apart because

Earth is warming up.

The Arctic ice

sheet is bordered

by six countries.

They are Canada,

Russia, Finland,

Norway, Greenland,

and the United States.

During the short summers,

the ice sheet shrinks. In

winter when the temperature

drops, it grows again.

Russia

Well, maybe youll see a

walrus or two. Big, gray,

blubbery walruses with

two long tusks. Oh, and

seals there are a few

seals and silvery white

foxes and owls and

polar bears.

Okay, so maybe it isnt

JUST ice and snow!

Thick layers of fat, called

blubber, keep a walrus warm

in icy waters.

Harp seals are gray, but the babies

are white making them hard to see.

What animals live there?

The fur of the arctic

fox is brown in summer

and white in winter.

The arctic, or snowy,

owl has lots of thick

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