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What is the water area of antarctica?
Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet. There is no water area on the surface of the continent, except hidden areas under the ice sheet.
Which continent is buried under a sheet of ice?
You may be thinking of Antarctica.
Is there a land under Antarctica?
Antarctica is a continent, so yes: under its ice sheet, there is land.
How much of Antarctica is under the ice sheet?
About 98% of the continent is covered by ice.
Is Antarctica rocky?
Yes, under the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
What is Antarctica located under?
You can locate the Antarctic continent under the ice sheet that covers 98% of its surface.
How do we know that there are mountains under antarctica?
We know there are mountains under the Antarctic ice sheet, because some of their peaks rise above the level of the ice sheet.
What different types of terrain are in antarctica?
Antarctica's terrain under its ice sheet -- covering 98% of the continent -- is much like the terrain on every continent.
What is a large cloth used under a blanket?
sheet.
How can there be rivers under the Antarctica Ice Caps?
Rivers on the surface of Antarctica are a seasonal melt-water phenomenon near the coasts. Under the ice sheet, there are sub-glacial lakes, not rivers. Some theorize that the bottoms of the ice sheet melt due to geo-thermal heat.
What are the ground conditions in Antarctica?
Ninety-eight percent of the continent is covered with an ice sheet, and the soil is frozen under it.
Why is the lower layer of Antarctica warm?
Some theorize that the sub-glacial lakes under Antarctica's ice sheet are melted because of being closer to the Earth's molten core.
