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Adélie Penguins

Provided by: NOAA |Published on: March 20, 2021

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Synopsis

This video shows how climate change is affecting the Adélie penguin population in Antarctica.
Students will learn that krill, which the Adélie penguins rely on for food, have lost a large portion of their habitat due to a lack of sea ice.

Subjects: Biology

Authors: NOAA

Region: Polar Regions

Languages: English

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Additional Prerequisites

Students should have a basic understanding of global warming and climate change.

Differentiation

Elementary science classes could use this video in a lesson on habitats, ecosystems, or food webs.
Biology classes could look up current data on the Adélie penguin population to learn how climate change is continuing to affect the polar ecosystems in Antarctica.
Other resources on this topic include this resource from NASA on ice sheet mass variation in Antarctica, this video on the melting of an important Antarctic glacier, and this ClimateScience experiment on sea level rise.

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