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Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth was known as?
Ice ages
What are giant glaciers called?
ICE SHEETS ice sheets
why around 14,000 years ago the Earth grew warmer and the ice sheets melted. What changes to the Earth did this make (be complete in your answer)?
j
Are mountain glaciers generally larger than ice sheets?
No. Ice sheets are the largest kind of glacier, many times larger than mountain glaciers.
What percentage of the earth's freshwater supply is in the two polar ice caps together?
99% of the worlds freshwater is locked up in the polar ice sheets.
How many ice sheets are on Earth right now?
2
What does the ice sheets hold?
The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's store of fresh water and about 90% of the earth's store of ice.
How do glaciers and ice sheets change the Earth's crust?
Continental ice sheets press down the Earth's crust. They deposit rich soil over the land. Glaciers carve valleys out of rock.
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth was known as?
Ice ages
Which parts of the earth were covered by ice sheets?
Ice sheets covered almost all of Canada and parts of the United States, Europe, and South America during each of it's glacial advances.Enormous volumes of the world's water were frozen in these ice sheets.
What is great sheets of ice called?
ice sheets
What are giant glaciers called?
ICE SHEETS ice sheets
Ice sheets on which continent store more than half of the earth's fresh water?
Antarctica
Are mountain glaciers larger than ice sheets?
No. Ice sheets are the largest kind of glacier, many times larger than mountain glaciers.
Is the Earth in an ice age right now?
No, the Earth is not in an ice age right now. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago.
why around 14,000 years ago the Earth grew warmer and the ice sheets melted. What changes to the Earth did this make (be complete in your answer)?
j
Are mountain glaciers generally larger than ice sheets?
No. Ice sheets are the largest kind of glacier, many times larger than mountain glaciers.
