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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.
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What is''a huge sheet of moving ice''?
A glacier
What is a large thick body of slow moving ice?
a glacier
A huge sheet of moving ice?
objects left by early people
What is the difference between an ice sheet and a ice berg?
an ice sheet is a sheet, ice berg is a berg
What is the rapid movement of a glacier called?
Sudden, rapid movements in glaciers are called glacier surges. Narrow, fast moving sections of an ice sheet are called ice streams.
What are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
Are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
What a glaciers?
A glacier is a thick sheet of ice.
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.
What 's a glacier?
A glacier is a thick sheet of ice.
What is''a huge sheet of moving ice''?
A glacier
Where was the thickest ice sheet in the laurentide?
The Laurentide Ice Sheet was thought to be two miles (3.2 km) thick around Nunavik Canada.
What percent of Antarctica is covered in thick ice?
98% of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet.
What are facts about Antarctic ice sheet?
The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica contains aboput 70% of the earth's fresh water and about 90% of the earth's store of ice. At the South Pole, the ice sheet is almost two miles thick.
What is a large thick body of slow moving ice?
a glacier
A moving mass of ice much larger than a valley glacier is know as a?
ice sheet.
A moving mass of ice much larger than a valley glacier is know as an?
ice sheet
