Antartica was coined to mean “opposite to the arctic”. The climate of the two areas are very different. Antartica is the coldest. On the average it is about 30⁰ colder than the arctic. At both poles, daily temperatures may drop far below the monthly mean. At the American south pole station, winter temperatures sometimes fall below -100⁰ Farrenheit. In august 1960, lowest temperatures world record of -127⁰ F. because this climatic difference, the land animals and plants are very different. In Antartica there are few plants, but we can find mosses,lichens, and algae. We can find penguin’s populate in coastline too. In arctic we can find many plants. There are fox, bear, reindeer, and lemmings, arctic is their land. Ice is the great feature of Antartica. Antartica is the storehouse of about 85% of the total world supply of ice. The icecap is very thick, averaging nearly 8000 feet. If the great volume of ice in Antartica were to melt, the volume of the world oceans and sea level would increase. Extreme atmospheric changes would have to take place for this to happen.