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What is the difference between an ice sheet and a ice berg?
an ice sheet is a sheet, ice berg is a berg
What is an ice sheet?
The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland; during the last ice age at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada and North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America. The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82% of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres. Estimated changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or glaciers. Masses of ice covering less than 50,000 square kilometers are termed an ice cap. An ice cap will typically feed a series of glaciers around its periphery.
What is''a huge sheet of moving ice''?
A glacier
A large floating mass of ice which detached from a glacier is an?
Iceberg or an ice sheet
What is the largest piece of ice in the world and in Antarctica?
Antarctica is the store for 90% of the earth's ice: an ice sheet covers 98% of the continent.
Why is most of the ice in Antarctica below sea level?
Antarctica's ice sheet rests on 98% of the continent. It has been said that the ice is so heavy, ". . . In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than 2,500 m below sea level." Quoted from the Antarctic Ice Sheet entry in Wikipedia. This is some, not most of the ice sheet. Ice shelves exist mostly below sea level.
What percentage sheet of ice does the Antarctica Ice sheet hold?
The ice sheet holds 100% of Antarctica's . . . ice sheet.
What is the difference between an ice sheet and a ice berg?
an ice sheet is a sheet, ice berg is a berg
What is a sheet of ice?
a sheet of ice is called a glacier
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.
Does an alpine glacier or an ice sheet form quicker?
ice sheet
The Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Southern Hemisphere .?
The antarctic ice sheet in the southern hemisphere is the only true ice sheet that remains on the planet.
Is the Antarctic ice sheet in the southern hemisphere?
The antarctic ice sheet in the southern hemisphere is the only true ice sheet that remains on the planet.
When was The Ice Sheet at Ogden created?
The Ice Sheet at Ogden was created in 1994.
It Is said that ice hockey is played on a sheet of ice called?
In Canada, at least, the sheet of ice is simply referred to as a rink.
What is a ice sheet call?
Ice rink?
What do you call the large sheets of ice covering entire Antarctica with 85 percent?
All of the ice that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent is called an ice sheet. Several glaciers are named, and the ice sheet is named the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
