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What is the difference in melting a glacier and iceberg?
They are both ice and they may both be melting. But the iceberg is already displacing water, so by melting does little to raise the sea level. When a glacier melts, the additional water does raise the sea level somewhat. This would be particularly true when major ice caps such as the Greenland ice cap, melt.
Can an iceberg sink?
no. it melts An iceberg will float as long as it is in water. If you could put an iceberg in a liquid less dense than ice, the iceberg would sink.
Where is the largest iceberg in the world?
The worlds largest iceberg would be: Iceberg B-15. It is located at Antarctica.
Is one half of iceberg above water?
1/8 of the iceberg is at the surface while the rest remains. This is an average iceberg (based on titanic)
Did glaciers melt in ice age?
Glaciers had been melting all the time even in ice age. This is caused by the movement of the water lifting the glacier up and down creating a crack ripping the ice from the glacier. Then the iceberg flows away and when it reaches warmer waters it starts to melt. Glaciers had been melting even in ice age
Is a melting iceberg a physical or chemical change?
Melting is a physical change.
In a iceberg what is a snout?
The end of the glacier where melting occurs.
What is the difference in melting a glacier and iceberg?
They are both ice and they may both be melting. But the iceberg is already displacing water, so by melting does little to raise the sea level. When a glacier melts, the additional water does raise the sea level somewhat. This would be particularly true when major ice caps such as the Greenland ice cap, melt.
Is ice berg a physical or chemical change?
An 'iceberg' is no kind of change, but the melting and forming is a physical change.
Is melting iceberg a physical change?
Yes, because the chemical formula has not changed. It has merely changed from a solid to a liquid.
If a huge iceberg was to melt in an area of water would the level of that water rise?
No. Archimedes' principle states that the buoyancy of an object is equal to the weight of the volume it displaces. This means that if the water melts, the volume that will be displaced by the melted water is equal to that displaced by the iceberg because the weight of the melted water is equal to the weight of the iceberg. This is why melting of the sea ice in the arctic does not contribute to sea level rise, while melting of the inland ice on Greenland and Antarctica do.
What happens where a glacier enters the sea?
Calving is the process of the individual iceberg breaking off from the glacier snout, in the sea, or in a glacial lake. The iceberg is the calf.
What kinds of rocks are in the ocean?
The ocean floor is mainly basalt. Closer to the poles you would occassionally find a glacial erratic, dropped from a melting iceberg.
If an an iceberg as 90 percent of its body below the water level but a ship has 90 percent of its body above the water level then Why doesn't a big ship like a cuise ship roll over?
The iceberg rolls because it is constantly melting, casuing it scenter of mass to change. The ship is help upright by water displacement and the shape of the hull so it does not roll like an iceberg does.
Which is iceberg?
a iceberg is a lettuce
What is that Techno song that goes iceberg iceberg iceberg?
eisbear paul oakenfold
What is the biggest iceburg?
This is s difficult one to answer, because icebergs melt. An iceberg is basically a large chunk of ice that breaks free from the Antarctic or Arctic and floats away on the water. The biggest iceberg recorded in modern times was called "Iceberg B-15". It was 295 km long and 37km wide. It broke free from what we call the "Ross ice Shelf" in the Antarctic. Today it is much smaller due to melting. There is no doubt that historically there was a much bigger iceberg, maybe sometime during the ice ages, but we weren't there to measure it.
