Animals in Hot and Cold Places

🌍Mission Brief #56

Animals live in hot and cold places all over the world.

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Connect the place to the people.

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Borders move. Mountains don't.

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🤯 Russia spans 11 time zones. You could leave on Monday and arrive on Tuesday without traveling for a day.

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Then & Now

🌍 The geography you'll learn is the same one your phone's GPS is using right now.

Animals live in hot and cold places all over the world. In hot places, like deserts, you can find animals like camels and lizards. In cold places, like the Arctic, you can see polar bears and penguins. Animals have special ways to stay safe in their homes.

Key Facts

Camels live in hot deserts.

Polar bears live in cold Arctic areas.

Lizards can be found in warm places.

Check Your Understanding

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Where do camels live?

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Why this still matters

Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

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Stretch Challenge

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Find where everything in your fridge came from this week.

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For the dinner table

“If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?”

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