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Q: What are the ocean currents like in the polar ice cap?
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Why doesn't the ice cap move?

It does, as it is at the mercy of ocean currents.


What ocean begins with A?

The Arctic Ocean (The sea beneath the north Polar ice cap)


What state is borders to the north by the Arctic Ocean?

It is Alaska. The Arctic Ocean is the body of saltwater that surrounds the northern polar ice cap. The only US state to border the Arctic Ocean is Alaska.


What state borders to the north by the Arctic Ocean?

It is Alaska. The Arctic Ocean is the body of saltwater that surrounds the northern polar ice cap. The only US state to border the Arctic Ocean is Alaska.


What states is bordered by the north the Arctic Ocean?

It is Alaska. The Arctic Ocean is the body of saltwater that surrounds the northern polar ice cap. The only US state to border the Arctic Ocean is Alaska.


Through which state does the Arctic Ocean pass?

The Arctic Ocean surrounds the Northern polar ice cap. As such, the only US state that it touches is Alaska, along the northern coast.


How many polar ice caps does earth have?

Two, north polar ice cap and south polar ice cap , the arctic and the antarctic


Which polar cap on Mars is larger and colder?

Mars Polar CapThe southern polar cap is larger and colder. It is composed of carbon dioxide (dry ice) while the northern is mainly water ice (which freezes at a warmer temperature, therefore the dry ice cap in the south is colder).


What is mar's largest polar cap?

The largest ice cap on mars is the Northern Ice Cap.


Is it dry in polar areas?

Polar areas have frozen water. They are too cold to receive rain. The North Pole sits on an ice cap over an ocean. The South Pole sits on a glacier. So there is lots of water with little precipitation.


Which of these climates does precipitation always fall as snow?

Sub-polar.


What Norwegian explorer proved that the Arctic was a deep polar ocean with a drifting icecap?

The Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen proved the Arctic was a deep polar ocean with a drifting ice cap in the late 1890's. Previously there were ideas that within the belt of ice, open shallow water, perhaps land surrounded the North Pole.