POLAR BEARS

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POLAR BEARS
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Habitat
. The artic is on the top of the earth . The
polar bear is a mammal that lives on Arctic .The
entire circumpolar Arctic region is polar bear
habitat
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Its appearance

• The polar bear is the largest bear in the world.
• Adults weigh 650 to 1100 pounds (295 kg to 498 kg
  ) Males are larger than females. A polar bear's
  coat can be from white to yellowish in colour.
• When the bears come ashore in the summer they eat
  plants and berries.

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• They have thick oily fur coats and a layer of fat
  under their skin. When bears come out of the
  water they shake the water off their coats. The
  polar bear is so strong it can kill an animal
  with one blow to the head

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Its foods

• In late summer and early autumn the bears go
  along the coastline looking for dead whales and
  dead walruses. They also eat lemmings, arctic
  foxes and birds.Their favourite food is the
  ringed seal. The polar bear waits by the seal's
  breathing holes in the ice and quickly snatches
  the seal when it pokes its head out of the hole.

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What it can do

• Polar bears are able to swim in the icy Arctic
  Ocean without dieing of the cold temperatures.
• The polar bear is nomadic. It travels to find its
  food.

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How many are left?

• Scientists estimate that there's about 22,000 to
  27,000 polar bears left on the Artic
• The impact of man is decreasing the population of
  the polar bear. This happening by green house
  gasses (global warming)
• hunting , less of food and other human impacts

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The human impact

• The impact on the polar bears population is
  decreasing every year by the green house gasses
  and hunting by humans. The way the problem is
  being dealt with the future of the polar bears
  could be few.

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The Food Chain
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Future of polar bears

• The future of the polar bears can be changed if
  the problems of the polar bears
• are resolved. The polar bears will be around for
  years to come we must stop the killing of the
  polar bears.

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Life and death

• .Polar bears can live 20 to 30 years, but only a
  small proportion of polar bears live past 15 to
  18 years
• . Evidence of human polar bear hunts have been
  found in 2,500- to 3,000-year-old ruins. Arctic
  peoples have traditionally hunted polar bears for
  food, clothing, bedding, and religious purposes.

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how the polar bears keep warm

• Polar bears have white, thick, creamy fur that
  helps them keep warm and is a good camouflage on
  the snowy landscape. An average male polar bear
  weighs over 1,000 pounds and is about ten feet
  long. A female polar bear is much smaller. They
  are about eight feet long. Sometimes Alaskan
  polar bears weigh over 1,500 pounds.

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Bibliography

• http//library.thinkquest.org/3877/PolarBears.html
  
• http//www.saskschools.ca/gregory/arctic/pbear.ht
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• http//www.nps.gov/archive/bela/html/polar.htm
• http//www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/polar_bear.html
• http//www.seaworld.org/infobooks/PolarBears/home.
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