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Is Antartica a desert

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Era Boyer

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5y ago
Updated: 1/31/2021

Antarctica is a desert. It does not rain or snow a lot there. When it snows, the snow does not melt and builds up over many years to make large, thick sheets of ice, called ice sheets

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