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How do polar ice caps form?

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From the precipitation of snow.

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Where are the polar ice caps?

Polar ice caps are high latitude regions that are covered in ice. Since for ice to form there has to be specific temperature ranges polar ice caps form only in very cold environments such as the North Pole (over water only), Greenland and Antarctica.


Are polar ice caps freshwater?

yes polar ice caps are freshwater


Do humans live in the polar ice caps?

no, they don't live in polar ice caps.


Layers of ice form at the north and south polar regions are called what?

They are called Ice caps


Which materials are not included in the hydrosphere that are not in liquid form?

glaciers and polar ice caps


What materials are included in the hydrosphere that are not in liquid form?

Glaciers and Polar Ice Caps


What materials included in the hydrosphere that are not in liquid form?

Glaciers and Polar Ice Caps


Does Neptune have polar caps?

Neptune, the 8th planet from the sun, does not have polar ice caps. However, at least one of its moons, Titan, has polar ice caps.


What exactly is a polar ice cap?

A polar ice cap is a high latitude part of a planet which is covered in ice. There are polar ice caps on other planets not just on earth. There is some known to be on Mars too. Polar ice caps form because of the lack of sunlight which gets to them. They are in the North and South pole.


Are there crops on the polar ice caps?

No, nothing grows on ice caps.


Does it rain in the polar ice caps?

Rain on the polar ice caps? Probably not; snow would be more common.


Why are the polar ice caps being damaged?

Global warming is melting the polar ice caps and they are slowly disappearing.