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Approximately 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the oceans.
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How much of the earth's ice is in Antarctica?
The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 90% of earth's ice.
What is a ice cap?
An ice cap is a covering of ice over a large area. They are often on the polar region of the Earth. It is an ice mass that covers a land area that is usually in a highland area.
What is the name for the periods of time where the Earth has been much colder?
The periods of time where the temperature of the Earth has been much colder then traditional times are referred to as ice ages. It is a long term reduction in the temperature of the Earth resulting in the expansion of the polar ice caps.
When ice melts will the liquid water occupy more or less volume than the ice?
The liquid has the same mass but less volume than the ice.
Which statement describes how the absorption of solar energy by the Earth's surface changes during an ice age?
During an ice age, the Earth's surface is covered by a larger area of ice and snow. This increased ice and snow cover increases the Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, causing more solar energy to be reflected back into space rather than being absorbed by the surface. As a result, the absorption of solar energy by the Earth's surface decreases during an ice age.
How much of the earth's ice is in Antarctica?
The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 90% of earth's ice.
What is a ice cap?
An ice cap is a covering of ice over a large area. They are often on the polar region of the Earth. It is an ice mass that covers a land area that is usually in a highland area.
How much ice in antarctica?
The Antarctic Ice Sheet contains about 90% of the earth's store of ice.
Antarctica is the biggest what?
Antarctica is the largest polar desert on earth; the largest storage area for ice on earth -- and that ice stores the largest extent of fresh water on earth. It is also the highest continent.
During the most recant ice age glacier covered about percent of the earth's land area?
The previous answer was incorrect. NOW the Earth's surface is covered with ice, but during the most recent ice age, NEARLY 30% of the Earth was covered by ice!I'm a little bold
How much more ice has the arctic over Antarctica?
There is much more ice covering Antarctica -- about 90% of the earth's store of ice -- than in the Arctic.
Where is most of earth's ice is found?
Most of earth's ice is piled up on Antarctica (the south pole). To a much lesser extent there is ice over the arctic and Greenland.
When will the ice caps stop melting?
There is no indication that they will stop melting (technically, they really wouldn't stop even if the earth weren't warming). Much of the area of the ice caps has been observed to be accelerating in melt, in fact.
How much of the earth's surface permanently covered with ice?
10.4%
How much percent water is on the Earth?
About 70% of the Earth is covered in water.
How much of the worlds water comes from Antarctica?
The Antarctic ice sheet stores about 70% of the earth's fresh water and about 90% of the earth's ice. The ice sheet is not considered a source of water.
Period when glacier covered much of the earth is called the?
I think you may mean the Ice Age. At one point in one of the Ice Ages, the Earth was almost covered by ice/glaciers.
