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What are giant glaciers called?
Giant glaciers are called ice sheets. These massive expanses of ice cover large areas of land and are found in Antarctica and Greenland. Ice sheets can be several kilometers thick and have a significant impact on global climate.
What are sheets of ice that have moved out over the sea called?
Ice floes.
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
What are the sheets of ice called that break off of antarctica?
These are called icebergs.
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
What are large sheets of ice that do not melt called?
Large sheets of ice that do not melt are called glaciers. Glaciers are formed when snow accumulates over time and compacts into ice, flowing slowly due to gravity.
What is it called when parts of ice sheets break of and become ice burgs?
The process of ice breaking off a glacier or ice sheet is called "calving".
What are huge ice blankets called?
Huge ice blankets are called ice sheets. These are large expanses of glacial ice covering more than 50,000 square kilometers of land. The two largest ice sheets on Earth are the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth was known as?
Ice ages
What type of glacier covers entire continents?
They are called continental glaciers or ice sheets.
Layers of ice form at the north and south polar regions are called what?
The layers of ice that form at the north and south polar regions are called ice caps. These ice caps are composed of ice sheets, which are massive layers of ice that cover vast areas of land.
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
