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Ice. Water is liquid ice and is found in the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica. Ninety-eight percent of the continent is covered with ice.
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What 2 water forms in Antarctica?
Any water in Antarctica forms into ice, either sea ice or fresh-water ice.
What types of ice are there in Antarctica?
salt water ice and fresh water ice
How much of the earths water is stored in Antarctica?
Antarctica's ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
Is the ice on Antarctica salt water?
Nope...lots of land, even unfrozen lakes, under the ice. Basically, Antarctica is a small continent (say the size of Australia) covered by a sheet of ice...and now it's shrinking. no, underneath the ice is rocky land Edited by Danielle Robertson 5/3/2009 :P
Why does Antarctica have half of all the fresh water on earth?
More than half, about 70% of the earth's fresh water is stored in Antarctica's ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent. As to why, the answer is that the formation of ice from fresh water is most prolific on the continent of Antarctica. This process has taken place for millenia.
What percentage sheet of ice does the Antarctica Ice sheet hold?
The ice sheet holds 100% of Antarctica's . . . ice sheet.
Is Antarctica a ice shelf?
An ice shelf forms over water. Antarctica is a continent and is covered -- 98% of the continent -- by an ice sheet. (Ice sheet because it covers more than 50 000 km of land area.)
Is Antarctica mostly over or under water?
I would say under water since Antarctica is a continent (land) that is mostly covered in ice and snow more so than the few glacial ice sheets that extend out over the water.
Is Antarctica an ice cap?
Yes and it is sitting on the landmass of Antarctica. the Arctic ice cap is floating in water.
Ice sheets on which continent store more than half of the earth's fresh water?
Antarctica
How many chunks of ice are in Antarctica?
Ice in Antarctica isn't counted in 'chunks'. The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica stores 90% of the earth's ice and 70% of the earth's fresh water.
How much more ice has the arctic over Antarctica?
There is much more ice covering Antarctica -- about 90% of the earth's store of ice -- than in the Arctic.
