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The Antarctic ice sheet is considered a single ice sheet, with several named shelves at the continent's beaches.
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∙ 10y agoAt the South Pole, the sheet is nearly two miles thick.
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∙ 8y agoThe Antarctic ice sheet holds about 70% of the earth's store of fresh water and about 90% of the earth's store of ice.
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The dense ice sheets that cover Antarctica create?
a high plateau with frigid, dry conditions
What is Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called ice caps or?
Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called continental glaciers or ice caps. Examples of continental glaciers are in Antarctica and Greenland The ice sheets that form in these two locations are up to 3500 meters thick. thank you a lot
Is Greenland in Antarctica?
Greenland is an island and Antarctica is a continent, both covered with ice sheets.
What is the difference between glaciers ice sheets and ice fields?
valley glaciers are constrained by their surroundings. And ice sheets dont Ice sheets are large
What is winds that blow off the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are?
Katabatic
What large sheets cover Antarctica?
Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet.
If the ice sheets in west Antarctica melted what would the landscape become?
The ice sheets of west Antarctica actually cover a series of islands, rather like Hawaii. So if the ice sheets melted, the islands would be visible in the ocean.
What large sheets of ice cover large parts of Antarctica?
Half the size of the United States.
What large sheets of ice cover large parts of Antarctica .?
Half the size of the United States.
The dense ice sheets that cover Antarctica create?
a high plateau with frigid, dry conditions
Broad thick sheets of ice that are common in Antarctica and Greenland are named what?
They are called ice sheets and/or continental glaciers if they cover more than 50,000 square kilometers of land area.continental
What is Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called ice caps or?
Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called continental glaciers or ice caps. Examples of continental glaciers are in Antarctica and Greenland The ice sheets that form in these two locations are up to 3500 meters thick. thank you a lot
What is the food web in the antarctic ice sheets?
There is no food web in Antarctica's ice sheets, cap or glaciers.
Is Greenland in Antarctica?
Greenland is an island and Antarctica is a continent, both covered with ice sheets.
Which sheets of ice break off the edge of Antarctica?
IceFlows.
Do ice sheets exist today in Greenland and Antarctica?
Yes.
These sheets of ice break off the edge of antarctica?
Ice Flows or Ice sheets (For 5th grade Jump Start game it's iceflows)
