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Called? Ice Floes. From the Norwegian/Old Norse flo meaning layer or level and the Old English flōh/flaw meaning piece or flagstone.
No they are glaciers
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What are icebergs composed of?
Icebergs are masses of ice broken off from ice sheets.
What do chunks of continental glaciers produce when they break off the edges of the ice sheets?
Floating Icebergs
Mountain and ice biome?
Some areas of land are not part of any major biome. These areas include mountains ranges and land that is covered with thick sheets of ice.
Rapid surge movements of the Earth's tectonic plates offer a convincing explanation for the advances and retreats of the Pleistocene ice sheets?
False
Which is the biggest glacier in the world?
The ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland are the largest in the world. They are shrinking.
What is are huge sheets of ice that move and shape the land?
glaciers.
What is great sheets of ice called?
ice sheets
What are giant glaciers called?
ICE SHEETS ice sheets
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land while picking up and carrying rocks and soil with them are?
glaciers ::)
What is the difference between glaciers ice sheets and ice fields?
valley glaciers are constrained by their surroundings. And ice sheets dont Ice sheets are large
What is the food web in the antarctic ice sheets?
There is no food web in Antarctica's ice sheets, cap or glaciers.
What is despotional landform?
Many now-familiar glacial landforms were created by the movement of huge sheets of ice called continental glaciers during the Pleistocene Epoch (more commonly called the Ice Age.)
What are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
Are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
How is an ice shelf different from an ice sheet?
According to Wikipedia, ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves. Additionally, ice shelves float on water, while ice sheets cover terrain.
These sheets of ice break off the edge of antarctica?
Ice Flows or Ice sheets (For 5th grade Jump Start game it's iceflows)
What geologic process created the Canadian shield topography?
Glaciation, Ice Ages. The Shield has been stripped bare and scoured by the movements of huge sheets of ice the result of climate cooling and warming over thousands of years.
