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No, but 98% of the continent of Antarctica is covered by its ice sheet.
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How does Antarctic ice help regulate our Earth's climate?
The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica acts as a heat sink, which can help regulate our climate.
Is the ice on Antarctica salt water?
Nope...lots of land, even unfrozen lakes, under the ice. Basically, Antarctica is a small continent (say the size of Australia) covered by a sheet of ice...and now it's shrinking. no, underneath the ice is rocky land Edited by Danielle Robertson 5/3/2009 :P
Is Antarctica nearly all solid ice?
Yes, Antarctica is nearly all covered in a thick ice sheet. In fact, about 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice, which averages about 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) in thickness. The ice is so massive that it contains about 70% of the world's fresh water.
Antarctica covers which of the Earth's poles?
Alpine glaciers and their movement is common in mountainous areas. Antarctica, however, is covered with an ice sheet, and its glaciers often flow into the sea without the alpine glacier brown or grey colour associated with carving valleys or bowls common in other mountainous areas on earth. Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with this ice sheet, so most glaciers flow on top of more stable ice.
Is the water salty tasting or fresh in Antarctica?
The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is a salt-water ocean. The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica is frozen fresh water.
What covers nearly 98 percent of Antarctica?
Fresh-water ice covers nearly 98 percent of the Antarctic continent, equal to 10 percent of the earth's surface.
Is 50 percent of Antarctica ice and snow?
Antarctica is a continent that covers 10% of the earth's surface, and it is 100% land. Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet, which covers 98% of its surface.
What is entire Antarctica covered with?
An ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent.
What percentage of snow covers Antarctica?
98%
Which continent is covered with 98 percent of ice and snow?
The amount of ice is about 90% of the earth's store of ice, and covers 98% of the Antarctic continent.
What percent of antarctica covers the earth?
Antarctica covers 10% of the earth's surface.
In Antarctica a huge ice cap covers?
In Antarctica an ice sheet covers 98% of the rocky continent below.
What dominates in Antarctica?
Antarctica is dominated by an ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
Antarctica's ice cap covers about of the continents landmass?
The ice cap on Antarctica covers a touch over 98% of that continent.
What percent of Earth's water is in Antarctica?
About 70% of the earth's fresh water is frozen in the ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent.
What percent of Antarctica is land and what percent is ice?
One hundred percent of Antarctica is land. The continent is about 98% covered by ice.
What is the largest ice in antarctica?
The largest ice in Antarctica is the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
