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Since 98% of the continent is covered by ice, the sheet has different names in different places.
For example, at the South Pole, the ice is called the Polar Plateau.
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Broad thick sheets of ice that are common in antarctica and Greenland?
Continental glaciers.
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
Is Antartica a desert?
Antarctica is a desert. It does not rain or snow a lot there. When it snows, the snow does not melt and builds up over many years to make large, thick sheets of ice, called ice sheets
What are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
Are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
The ice sheet is approximately 1500 meters thick in the Arctic or Antarctica?
The ice sheet exceeds 1500 meters in both of these ice sheets, with the Arctic ice sheet referring to the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Why you teach the word thick instead of broad?
There are a number of reasons why you would teach the word thick instead of broad. You may be talking about the layers of Earth for example and broad wouldn't be appropriate.
A pack of 500 sheets of paper is 50mm thick how thick is one sheet?
90
What has broad green-leaf plants with thick juicy pink stems?
A broad green leaf like plant with thick juicy pink stems are called.........
Which rays can not be stopped by thick sheets of lead?
gamma rays
How they can survived in Antarctica?
they have a thick layer of blubber to help them to survive and also a thick coat of fur
