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How is an ice cap and ice shelf and pack ice formed in Antarctica?
because the climate of Antarctica is cold
Why did antarctica turn to ice?
Antarctica did not turn to ice, but ice formed over the continent and covers about 98% of it.
Are there images of Antarctica with no ice?
No. Antarctica has been ice-covered for 35 million years.
What do people in antarctica use to not crack ice?
Generally, the ice in Antarctica is several feed thick. Otherwise, on freshly formed ice, people step carefully so as not to crack the ice.
Why is Antarctica covered with thick ice if it only snows a few inches a year?
Antarctica's ice sheet has been building up for millennia; ice cores documenting the Earth's atmosphere for the past 800,000 years have been drilled in it. The ice sheet is formed from moisture -- what little there is given an average of five percent humidity on the continent -- that freezes. Snow is infrequent in Antarctica, because the polar desert air is too cold and dry to form snow.
What percentage of the ice can find in the antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice found in Antarctica is...ice...in Antarctica.
What are three different types of ice in Antarctica?
There may be more, but here are three:Sea ice, formed once the sun sets and can reach depths of up to 12 feet.Pancake ice, formed as the season begins to cool on the surface of the sea.Glacial ice, which is pure ice -- no minerals, which is formed over the eons of ice crystals blowing around the continent.
Why are icebergs made of freshwater if it doesn't rain in Antarctica?
Freshwater ice is formed from moisture, and over mellennia, can form enough ice to calve off an ice sheet and produce icebergs. Humidity in Antarctica is only about five percent, so ice formation in the ice sheet is a lengthy process.
What is the percentage of the ice in Antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice in Antarctica is ice.
How can sodium chloride be formed in Antarctica?
- Antarctica hasn't rocks on the surface and rivers to trasport salt. - Ice has an extremely low concentration of sodium chloride.
How much snow is formed per year in Antarctica?
Most of Antarctica is too dry for snow to form: it is the driest continent on earth. Moisture generally evaporates before it reaches the surface of the continent. The snow that does fall is compressed into ice, that over millenia has formed the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
Is the ice sheet on Antarctica shrinking?
yes ice in the antarctica shrink
