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Only 2 percent of fresh water is frozen in glaciers.
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What is one form of frozen water in the South Pole?
The frozen water at the South Pole is fresh water ice.
Why is the arctic ice cap not considered a glacier?
Because it is frozen sea water. A glacier is frozen fresh water.
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.
Fresh water in frozen glaciers and ice caps makes up what percentage of the total amount of fresh water on earth?
about 66%
Is there a fresh water stream in antarctica?
No. Ninetyy-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet. There is no fresh water there, except that which is frozen.
What percent of the earths fresh water is frozen poles?
Only about 1.7% of the world's total water is trapped in glaciers and ice caps, but about 68.7% of fresh water on Earth is frozen in them.
How much fresh water is held in Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Southern Hemisphere?
70% of the worlds fresh water and 90% of the worlds ice is stored in the Antarctic ice sheet.
How much fresh water and ice does antarctica have?
All the fresh water in Antarctica is frozen. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent contains about 70% of the earth's store of fresh water. As well, it contains about 90% of the earth's store of ice.
How can ice provide fresh water if the ice is salt water?
When ice forms in a salty body of water such as the ocean, the salt remains in the liquid portion of water underneath the ice, and the ice is pure water.
What of earths fresh water is in Antarctica's ice caps?
According to Wikipedia, this number is about 61% of the earth's fresh water frozen in the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent of Antarctica.
What happens to fresh water when frozen?
it turns into ice because of the temperature and expands in volume.
Where does most fresh water on earth remain?
Frozen in the icecaps (in the form of ice at the poles).
