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Are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
What is Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called ice caps or?
Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called continental glaciers or ice caps. Examples of continental glaciers are in Antarctica and Greenland The ice sheets that form in these two locations are up to 3500 meters thick. thank you a lot
Broad thick sheets of ice that are common in antarctica and Greenland?
Continental glaciers.
Broad thick sheets of ice that are common in Antarctica and Greenland are named what?
They are called ice sheets and/or continental glaciers if they cover more than 50,000 square kilometers of land area.continental
Is Antartica a desert?
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
The ice sheet is approximately 1500 meters thick in the Arctic or Antarctica?
The ice sheet exceeds 1500 meters in both of these ice sheets, with the Arctic ice sheet referring to the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The Great Lakes area was once covered by thick sheets of ice When the ice melted, the land around began to rise What is the name of that process?
isostatic rebound
What is a thick sheet of moving ice?
Also called ice sheets, they can be called glaciers or continental ice masses. While glaciers, by definition, have to be moving- albeit VERY slowly- ice sheets can just lay there until they move, which could classify them as a glacier.
What is great sheets of ice called?
ice sheets
Mountain and ice biome?
Some areas of land are not part of any major biome. These areas include mountains ranges and land that is covered with thick sheets of ice.
What are giant glaciers called?
ICE SHEETS ice sheets
How much of the north pole is land?
There is no specific land. The north pole is just a geographic location.There are ice sheets that cover the north pole. These ice sheets are thick enough to be walked on. There are island that are close to the north pole but there is no land in the north pole.
