Polar Bear By Nicole Monde

1. Polar BearBy Nicole Monde

2. Polar Bear Surface Features Ice burgs Snow Glaciers Ice Shelter Den Ice Habitat Arctic Vegetation Seaweed Berries Plants Climate Cold

3. Physical Features Diet Polar Bear Quiz Behaviors Interesting Facts

4. Behaviors • A polar bear can kill a seal by standing next to an air hole when a seal is under water. When the seal comes up for air, a polar bear can pounce on it. • A polar bear can just run away from danger because it camouflages with the snow. • Polar bears will can travel on ice from Alaska to Russia.

5. Diet • A polar bear eats rigged seals, beluga whales, harp, and narwhales. If polar bears can’t find these foods, they will eat, berries, ducks, seaweed, small rodents, and even reindeer. • Polar bears know what to eat because in the summer there is no meat to eat and it less colder so they just eat plants. • A polar bear has sharper teeth than a grizzly bear because polar bears eat more meat.

6. Physical Features • A polar bear can survive in the cold because it has big puffy fur. • A polar bears fur is not soft. It’s oily. The oily fur helps repel water. • A polar bear is white because it camouflages with the snow so a predator does not see it. • A polar bear is not that fast but it can still catch its prey. A polar bear is slow because they have all that fur to carry.

7. Interesting Facts • A polar bear’s fur isn’t really white. It’s clear. When the sun reflects on a polar bear it looks white. • A polar bear can survive for months without food if they can’t find any. • Polar bears are very strong swimmers. • Polar bear’s survival is being threatened because ice is melting.

8. Quiz • How does a polar bear survive in the snow? • Why is a polar bears’ fur not soft? • How does a polar bear catch its prey?