Antarctica

Pros and cons of Tourism in Antarctica

• Good experience
• Encourages independent research
• good Photo opportunies
• quiet and peaceful
• Can raise awareness, so people make a better effort to protect the wildlife
• Tourists can leave litter
• Oil spills are a risk with lots of ships coming in
• Ships could break ice with animals living on it
• Socialization with humans could make animals less aware of their natural predators
• Could introduce new diseases

Why is Antarctica so cold

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• Antarctica is cold because when rays from the sun hit the Earth at the bottom (where Antarctica is) the rays are not very concentrated due the curvature of the earth. This s why it's so hot at the equator too, because here, the rays are very concentrated.