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The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent flows downhill, toward the sea, based on gravity.
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What are some animals in the Antarctic ice caps?
No animals live permanently on the Antarctic continent or in its polar ice cap.
What is the Antarctic ice cap?
The Antarctic ice sheet covers 98% of the continent, contains about 90% of earth's ice and 70% of the earth's fresh water.
What is the Antarctic ice cap made of?
The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's store of fresh water and about 90% of the earth's store of ice.
How many polar ice caps does earth have?
Two, north polar ice cap and south polar ice cap , the arctic and the antarctic
Where is the antarctic ice cap?
The ice sheet you're thinking of covers 98% of the continent.
The Antarctic ice cap was found to be an abundant source of?
meteorites... :)
What is the food web in the antarctic ice sheets?
There is no food web in Antarctica's ice sheets, cap or glaciers.
What is the name of the deep crack in antarctic ice cap?
Crevasse not to be confused with crevice
Is Antarctica a icecap?
There is a polar ice cap covering about 98% of the Antarctic continent.
Is there fresh water in the Antarctic?
Yes.Most of the Antarctic continent is covered in frozen fresh water. It forms the polar ice cap.
Where can a polar cap be found?
We refer to the polar ice cap biome as the regions of the planet covered by ice most of the year. This includes large portions of the arctic and antarctic.
How much does the iceshelf in Antarctica expand?
The ice cap -- which includes the ice shelves -- doubles the size of the Antarctic continent in winter.
