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as we all know the world is undergoing what we know as global warming and the adverse effect is what Antarctica is facing now
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What else is Antarctica made up of instead of ice?
Antarctica is a continent, 98% of which is covered by ice.
How are the ice sheets of Antarctica breaking?
Your question is really about ice shelves, not the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice shelves are deteriorating because of warmer ocean waters that melt the ice shelf from below.
How do you know that antarctica was not always covered in ice?
The geology of Antarctica points to it once being tropical. The movement caused by tectonic plates, and the breaking up of the single landmass called, Pangea, shifted the Antarctic to its present position at the south pole.
What percentage of the ice can find in the antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice found in Antarctica is...ice...in Antarctica.
What is the percentage of the ice in Antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice in Antarctica is ice.
Is Antarctica made up of more ice or land?
Antarctica is a continent which is 100% land. However, 98% of the continent is covered by an ice sheet. So there is more land than ice.
What lies under Antarctica's huge ice cap?
Under the ice cap and ice shelves in Antarctica, you'll find a continent. The continent makes up 10% of the earth's land surface.
Is there any landmass under the ice in Antarctica?
Antarctica is, indeed, a continent, making up 10% of the Earth's surface.
Is antarctica just made up of ice or anything else?
Antarctica is a continent made up of the same materials that make up all continents. Ninety-eight percent of the continent, however, is covered with an ice sheet.
What land forms or water forms make up Antarctica?
The continent of Antarctica makes up the land mass. The Antarctic region includes sub-Antarctic islands and the Southern Ocean.
Is the ice sheet on Antarctica shrinking?
yes ice in the antarctica shrink
Is Chile made up of islands?
yes because the islands are turned into ice and that ice is apart of Antarctica
