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Ice cores drilled in Antarctica -- and in many other ice sheets throughout the world -- can be analyzed in the lab for the atmospheric contents present during the period when the ice froze. These data give scientists treasure troves of data that have to do with climate and climate change over tens of thousands of years of Earth's atmospheric history.
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How do Antarctic scientists get water?
drink the melted ice
What part of the Antarctic ice sheet is of major concern to scientists?
Today, scientists are concerned with warming ocean waters that are disintegrating the ice shelves around the continent. The warmer water melts the ice shelf from below.
What do Antarctic scientists do?
Scientists in the Antarctic study the health of planet earth.
Antarctica is the best place in the world to find what?
Antarctica is the best place in the world for scientists to find meteorites. Scientists find meteorites in the Antarctic blue ice.
How much is the percent of the ice in the antarctica?
One hundred percent of the ice...in the Antarctic, is ice in the Antarctic.
Where do scientists obtain ice cores from?
Scientists obtain ice cores from regions with large ice sheets or glaciers, such as Antarctica, Greenland, and mountainous regions. They drill deep into the ice to collect cylindrical samples that can provide information about past climates, atmospheric composition, and environmental conditions.
Where do Antarctic Ice fish live?
The Antarctic of course.
Is antarctic region is covered by ice?
Ninety-eight percent of the Antarctic continent is covered by an ice sheet.
What is the frozen desert?
The Antarctic Desert is a polar or ice desert.
What are facts about the Antarctic ice sheets?
1. Ice sheets contain enormous quantities of frozen water. If the Greenland Ice Sheet melted, scientists estimate that sea level would rise about 6 meters (20 feet). If the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted, sea level would rise by about 60 meters (200 feet). 2. The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets contain more than 99 percent of the freshwater ice on Earth. 3. An ice sheet is a mass of glacial land ice extending more than 50,000 square kilometers (20,000 square miles).
Is it the Arctic or the Antarctic region that is solid ice?
The arctic is is mostly ice. Antarctica is a continent that is included in the antarctic region.
What are some animals in the Antarctic ice caps?
No animals live permanently on the Antarctic continent or in its polar ice cap.
