Polar regions are different from any other places explain the surprising features of it
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It is the northernmost part of the Earth and primarily made up of the frozen Arctic Ocean, that surrounds the North Pole. Landmasses of Arctic region include islands and the northern parts of the European, Asian, and North American continent
1. The term 'Arctic' derives from Greek word ‘Arktikos’ which means near the Bear.
2. It is divided by the summer isotherm, a climatic boundary between regions with summer temperatures averaging 50°F (or 10°C)—the subarctic—and colder regions (the true Arctic).
3. Climate of this region is characterized by cold winters and cool summers. Winters characterized by continuous darkness, cold and stable weather conditions, and clear skies whereas summers characterized by continuous daylight, damp and foggy weather, and weak cyclones with rain or snow.
4. Vegetation: Plants such as dwarf shrubs, graminoids, herbs, lichens, and mosses, which all grow relatively close to the ground, forming tundra. Animals such as Arctic hare, lemming, muskox, caribou, snowy owl, Arctic fox, Grizzly bear, wolf, polar bear wolverines, ermines, and Arctic ground squirrels, seals, walrus, and several species of cetacean—baleen whales, narwhals, killer whales, and belugas.
5. There are over 40 different ethnics groups living in the Arctic region such as Saami in circumpolar areas of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Northwest Russia, Nenets, Khanty, Evenk and Chukchi in Russia, Aleut, Yupik and Inuit (Iñupiat) in Alaska, Inuit (Inuvialuit) in Canada and Inuit (Kalaallit) in Greenland.