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Why is iceberg a compound word?
"Iceberg" is a compound word because it is formed by combining the words "ice" and "berg" to describe a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet.
Is Iceburg a compound word?
No, "Iceburg" is not a compound word. It is a misspelling of the correct term "iceberg," which is a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet.
What is the difference between an ice sheet and a ice berg?
An ice sheet is a large mass of glacial ice that covers land, while an iceberg is a large floating mass of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in the ocean. Ice sheets are stationary, while icebergs can drift with ocean currents.
What is a large persistent body of ice commonly called?
A Glacier an ice sheet an ice cap
What is another name for a slow moving sheet of ice?
A glacier. Please see the related link for more information.
What are similarities between ice ages and glaciers?
An ice age is when the whole world or large mass of land is covered with a sheet of ice, where as a glacier is a large sheet of ice over a smaller piece of land not causing global problems.
How big is the ice sheet over antarctica?
The Antarctic ice sheet covers 98% of the continent, which is as large as USA and Mexico, combined.
What do you call the large sheets of ice covering entire Antarctica with 85 percent?
All of the ice that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent is called an ice sheet. Several glaciers are named, and the ice sheet is named the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
A large floating mass of ice which detached from a glacier is an?
Iceberg or an ice sheet
What is a large piece of ice that covers land?
A large piece of ice that covers land is called an Ice Sheet.
Glacier ice that covers a large area of flat land?
This could be an ice sheet, or perhaps an ice plateau.
What is a large block of ice that breaks off from a glacier or ice sheet and floats in the sea?
an iceberg
