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Where is the 2 percent of land that isn't ice the North Pole or the South Pole?
The 2 percent of land that isn't covered by ice at the North Pole or the South Pole mainly consists of landmasses such as islands in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. These areas include parts of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and Antarctica that are not covered by ice sheets.
What covers 98 percent of Antarctica?
No, but 98% of the continent of Antarctica is covered by its ice sheet.
How much of Antarctica isn't coverd in ice?
Less than 1% of Antarctica is not covered in ice, mainly in areas such as the Dry Valleys and some exposed rock areas along the coast. The vast majority of Antarctica is covered by a thick ice sheet that averages about 1 mile (1.6 km) in thickness.
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
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.
What percent of Antarctica is covered with snow?
97% of Antarctica is covered by ice!!!
What percent of Antarctica is covered in ice?
Ninety-eight percent of the continent is covered with an ice sheet.
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 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.
Is antarctica about 10 to 20 percent not covered in ice?
Bare land in Antarctica is about two percent.
What percent of Antarctica is covered in thick ice?
98% of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet.
What percent of Antarctica is not covered?
0.4 percent is not covered by ice on average between 0.4 - 2.5
What percentage of antarctica is not covered with ice?
About two percent of the continent is ice-free.
What percentage of Antarctica is not covered?
If your question has to do with ice, the answer is two percent of the Antarctic continent is not covered by an ice sheet.
What percent of antarctica is not covered with snow?
Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet, only a small part of Antarctica -- the Antarctic Peninsula -- receives any snow at all.
Does Antarctica have waterways?
Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet -- it is not known for its waterways.
What large sheets cover Antarctica?
Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet.
