Polar Bears

By: ELIZABETH CARDOSO,

KELSEY GERSTNER,& KRISHTIAN

CHURCH

CLASSIFICATION

• Kingdom: Animalia• Phylum: Cordata• Class: Mammalia• Order: Carnivora• Family: Ursidae• Genus: Ursas• Species: Ursus maritimus

A is For Artic

For half the year they live in the cold part of the Artic and for the rest of the year they live on the mainland and hunt for berries.

B is For Bears

Polar Bears closely resemble a brown bear and a black bear.

Black Bear

Brown Bear

Polar Bear

C is For Carnivore

A polar bear is a meat eater and eats seals and sometimes artic fox.

D is For Den

Polar bears live in dens that is a dug out of ice. ( like caves)

E is For Endangered

There are as few as 10,000 left in in some places like Alaska.

F is For Furry

Their fur is transparent hallow tubes that when the sun hits them makes it look white.

G is For Global Warming

Global warming is destroying the ice caps where they live.

O is for Ocean

They hunt in the northern part of the Atlantic ocean and they are great swimmers.

S is For Seals

Seals is one of the main foods they eat. They also eat arctic fox.