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The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica lies atop a continent, composed of land.
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What is Nonpermanent ice?
Places such as most of Antarctica are covered with a permanent layer of ice. In other places, ice only forms when the temperature drops below freezing. The ice formed when this happens in non-permanent ice because it is only temporary.
What is the very thick layer of ice found in the Greenland and Antarctica?
They are the Polar Ice Caps and they are not as thick as they used to be.
Is Antarctica made out of ice only?
Antarctica is a continent, 98% of which is covered by an ice sheet.
What percantage of antarctica is NOT ice?
None of Antarctica is ice. Antarctica is 100% land. The land is covered -- about 98% -- by ice, so only two percent of the land is not covered by ice.
How much of Antarctica isn't coverd in ice?
98% of Antarctica is covered in a sheet of ice which means that only 2% is uncovered. :-)
Does Antarctica only have ice?
no. It also has dirt on one side from where the ice has melted
Does west of the Antarctica only have ice?
Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered by its ice sheet -- the ice-free areas are generally beaches and mountain peaks.
What percentage of the ice can find in the antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice found in Antarctica is...ice...in Antarctica.
Why is the lower layer of Antarctica warm?
Some theorize that the sub-glacial lakes under Antarctica's ice sheet are melted because of being closer to the Earth's molten core.
Colliding drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of a thunderstorm forming a layer of ice which creates what?
Hail forms in the upper levels of thunderstorms when water collides and forms ice.
What is the percentage of the ice in Antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice in Antarctica is ice.
What part of Antarctica continues to melt?
The only part of Antarctica that can melt is the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
