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Fact-Finding Team
Convergence Zone
The mission of your group is to
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Find the answers to the questions
listed below. You may use books, periodical resources,
the Internet or the Antarctica:
90 Degrees South video titled I Thought Penguins
Could Fly about the biology and ecology of the continent.
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Make a presentation of your findings to the class. You
may use whatever media you choose for your presentation.
Think about how YOU learn best.
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Make a handout of the important
findings of your group to distribute to the rest of
the class. Be sure to cite
your sources.
Questions — Convergence Zone
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Considering the cold water surrounding Antarctica with
its own ecosystem and the warmer water of the Indian,
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with its own ecosystem, what
will happen when the cold and warm waters meet?
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For your fact sheet, draw or diagram the meeting of
these waters and the currents that grow out of it.
Resources
Antarctic winds vital to global sea life
http://usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/sun/
2001-01-30-katabatic-winds.htm
Oceanography
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/science/oceanography.shtml
Antarctic Convergence
http://www.operation-snowbird.com/Antarctica/Convergence.htm
Antarctic Convergence (Shows
Map)
http://carto.eu.org/article2436.html
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