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What happens where a glacier enters the sea?
When a glacier enters the sea, it creates a floating ice shelf. This ice shelf can calve off icebergs as it melts or breaks apart. The melting of glaciers into the sea also contributes to rising sea levels and changes in ocean circulation patterns.
How the water in an iceberg may fall as rain over a city on the land?
When an iceberg melts, the water from the iceberg enters the surrounding ocean. This water may then evaporate into the atmosphere and form clouds, which can eventually travel over a city on land. When these clouds release the gathered water as precipitation, it can fall as rain over the city.
What is a large detached piece of an iceberg or glacier?
A large detached piece of a glacier is called an iceberg. The process by which this happens is called calving.There isn't really a term for a detached piece of an iceberg. See related question.
What percentage of an iceberg's mass is above the waterline?
Between 10 to 20 percent of an iceberg mass is above water. An iceberg is a massive piece of floating ice. Usually, approximately 80 to 90 percent of an iceberg is below sea level. A very large iceberg can be over 230 feet in height and over 738 feet in width.
A large floating mass of ice which detached from a glacier is an?
Iceberg or an ice sheet
What happens when the top of the iceberg melts in a salty ocean?
... it melts... and becomes part of the ocean.
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.
Really is an iceberg a mineral?
An iceberg is a mineral because it has a definite chemical composition, it is an inorganic solid, and it is naturally occurring. You might think it is just frozen water but it is not, it is a mineral when it is an iceberg, but when it melts then it is not a mineral.
How can an iceberg might provide drinking water in the future?
when it melts it provides drinking water
What happens when ice is wrapped in saw dust or woolen blanket?
=it melts==it melts==it melts=
What happens when something melts?
When something melts it turns into a liquid
What happens when a glacier melts?
What can happen when the glacier melts in a cirque
What makes iceberg turn into unusual shapes?
It breaks off then melts and freezes onto a different one
Is an iceberg renewable?
An iceberg is a very large chunk of frozen water (ice). Eventually it melts into the ocean. The water from which it was oeriginally made fell as snow hundreds of thousands of years ago. So an iceberg is renewable from the Earth's general stock of water, but it takes a long time.
What lives in water dies in summer and grows with its roots upward?
An iceberg - it "lives" in water, melts in summer, and the visible portion of it grows as it melts, suggesting its roots are actually its base floating under the water.
What happens when solid is heated?
Melts into a liquid.
What happens to pearls if you put them in vinegar?
It melts
