How did the Antarctic ice cap form?

Answer 1

All over the earth, icebergs are formed by glaciers that flow into the sea forming an ice tongue. Once the ocean water waves separate the tongue from the glacier, an iceberg is calved into the sea.

Answer 2

Snow is formed when it 'rains' but obviously it is too cold for any precipitation to come out as rain so it comes at like snow like we would have if it was below 0 degrees celsius (32 degrees fahrenheit).

Another Answer

There is no snow in Antarctica: crystals are blowing ice. Humidity is less than five percent on the continent.

Answer 3

Ice in Antarctica melts like any other ice in any other place melts: heat and melted ice -- running water -- cause ice to melt.

Answer 4

It formed when land masses moved away from Pangea

Answer 5

Ice is the result of freezing water and the atmosphere is the source of the water that freezes on the continent.

Answer 6

they originally originate from heavily populated areas, then form a chunk of ice resulting in an iceburg

Answer 7

it comes from a mountain of ice then big blocks of ice fall of it into the ocean and becomes a iceberg

Answer 8

Ice