For Questions 1-5, circle the answer for the correct pole.  Also fill in blanks for 3 and 4.

1. Which pole is closest to Colorado?   North Pole       South Pole

2. If you wanted to watch penguins marching in person, to which pole would you travel?

North Pole                   South Pole

3. Which pole is in an ocean?                North Pole       South Pole       

Name the ocean. ________________________________

4. Which pole is in a continent? North Pole       South Pole       

Name the continent.  __________________________________

5. Over which pole does our earth’s protective atmosphere have a hole in its ozone layer?

North Pole                   South Pole

6. Which of the United States is closest to the North Pole?  ____________

7. Which of the United States is closest to the South Pole?  ____________

8. What is the latitude and longitude of the North Pole?  ______________

9. The North Pole of the earth is not in the same location as the magnetic north pole, to which the north ends of a compass needle point.  Which country is closest to the magnetic north pole?    ________________________

10.  The Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis (which is Latin for "northern dawn") is a display of lights of various colors and shapes seen in the night sky at certain times of the year in parts of the Northern Hemisphere close to the North Pole.  What is the name of similar night sky lights near the South Pole?