... it melts... and becomes part of the ocean.
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.
when it melts it provides drinking water
When an iceberg melts, the remaining water will flow into the ocean, contributing to rising sea levels. This can have various impacts on local ecosystems, including changes in ocean currents and temperature. The process can also release nutrients and potential pollutants trapped within the ice, affecting marine life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It melts
It becomes water.
The water melts
Ice actually expands as it melts, which is why a floating iceberg will raise the water level as it melts. This is because water molecules in solid ice are locked in a crystal lattice structure, which becomes more disordered and takes up more space as the ice melts into liquid water.