The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - Camille Seaman

How can you tell the two poles apart? Where are the penguins? What about the bears? The Arctic pole is located in the Northern Hemisphere within the deep Arctic Ocean, while the Antarctic pole is smack in the middle of the ice-covered Antarctica. Camille Seaman describes how enterprising people and organisms have found ways to reside around both poles despite the frigid temperatures.

Lesson by Camille Seaman, animation by Provincia Studio.

[daveliu]

Birds: "Yo, we gotta fly South for winter."
Penguins: "Damn it, we went too far."

[cobytang]

You know it's cold when -40C = -40F.

[peyuko]

Teacher: So what did you learn?
Me: That the Brazilian flag doesn't follow the laws of wind.

[briannemorris]

It’s amazing how the Inuit people survived and thrived in the Arctic for so long. Strong, creative people.

[lucienvonlemons]

“Even the most extreme animals fight for survival”

*cuts to penguin*

[wajahatsherwani]

Pretty soon this will be a history lesson.

[cq.cumber_offishial]

There's two definitions for directions according to the Greek in this situation.
North
Not north

[LucidDreamer]

When I was in high school, we had a teacher who believed that Antarctica was the world’s largest iceberg. She also claimed that Antarctica stays at the bottom of the world because it is very heavy. Obviously this was at a public school in the United States.

[benshuaitan]

You know how I differentiate the North Pole and the South Pole?


North Pole = No Penguins

South Pole = Some Penguins🐧🐧🐧

[mikehillenbrand]

santa just wants
 us to think the north poles an ocean with constantly shifting ice, perfect place to hide a workshop if you ask me.

[matthewviramontes]

For 39 years I could have swore that penguins and polar bears lived side by side. Welp, there goes that...

[imraangill]

Most birds: aight let’s head south for winter
Penguins: this south

[blackmailz]

2:06 the impossible physics of the Brazillian flag

[leovinc]

Hi, great video but just one clarification. There really are permanent residents in the Bridgeman islands a few kilometers off the main Antarctic penninsula. It's a small town at a base whose residents are the families of Chilean military and scientific staff. They have a small school, a hospital, a post office, a bank, library and even a little church. Residents (staff and families) range at about 150 throughout the summer and reduce to half during winter. Thought it was good to aknowledge. thanks again for the great work in the series!!

[adharshvishnu]

On an average day Ted ed teaches me more than almost all my school teachers put together for months

[OOlympus]

This video is precise, accurate, objective and fun. A lot of information, but palatable. Congratulations to the author!

[cactuskaktus]

The artic: the north
The antarctic: not the north

[CoronaryTen]

I feel that she says "anarctica" instead of "antarctica". Anyone else?

[vivid_]

I'm using this for a power-point I need to make at school and it took several replays to get all the information because this video is packed to the brim with information.
Thank You Ted-Ed!

[apostolosblacksmith]

One clarification about the origin of the names: Arktikos (stressed on the last syllable, not the first), is an adjective derived from arktos, which means 'bear', so arktikos (masc) means 'of the bear'.
Naming the north 'Arktiki' (fem) originates from the greek names of two constellations near the polar, the ursa minor and ursa major - mikri arktos and megali arktos in greek, meaning 'small bear' and 'big bear', of course.