Antarctic ice is formed very slowly when ice crystals -- the only forms of precipitation over 99.9% of the continent -- stick to existing ice and are covered with other ice crystals. Over millenia, the ice becomes so heavy that it presses out all minerals other than oxygen and hydrogen, and becomes clear.
From the time of the ice age when snow covered almost the whole world. In the time of the dinosaurs there were no polar caps at all. Also, rainforest fossils have been found on the continent, indicating that there was once a much milder climate there.
Ice And Snow:
Ice and Snow are H2o. So technically, If they were to fall from the clouds it would take place as rain in cold weather. Now for Ice, It would either fall from the clouds as hail or either start as snow and as the temperature drops and freezes into ice. So snow and ice would come from the sky when the temperature drops
All icebergs everywhere calve off of ice glaciers as gravity pulls the heavy ice into the sea. Ice 'tongues' form and the underwater action on the tongues causes calving, which forms icebergs.
All ice is formed from moisture. The average humidity on the Antarctic continent is about five percent. What of that humidity that doesn't evaporate, freezes into ice.
Ice is always formed when moisture reaches below 32 degrees F -- O degrees C -- anywhere on earth.
Generally, warming ocean waters are the cause of most ice melting in the Antarctic.
The worldwide flood
it turns into water
about 2% of the worlds fresh water are locked up in the polar ice caps....
The ice-caps are made from frozen fresh water. When it melts into the ocean - it's adding pure water to the mixture - not salt water.
ice caps and glaciers
The ice caps
Glaciers. Or frozen ice caps.
The ice in ice caps is all water. Add that to sea water and the sea will be come more dilute. If you add ice cubes to your Pepsi, it too will be come dilute.
it's because ice caps are frozen.
The planet Mars has polar ice caps that are composed of nearly 100 percent water ice. These ice caps shrink and expand with the changing seasons on Mars.
about 2% of the worlds fresh water are locked up in the polar ice caps....
No, but there is ice in the caps.
2%
Mars does have water, it is just frozen in its ice caps.
Mars has water (Ice) on its polar caps
The earth's fresh water is naturally occurring water that is in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, and underground as groundwater in aquifers and underground streams.
Oceans but, most of the water is chloride and sodium. Also there is lots of water in the ice caps and glaciers.
No it does not, but it does have water from its ice caps
ice caps , and water