What is antartica made of? Is it land covered with ice or is it just ice?

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What is antartica made of? Is it land covered with ice or is it just ice?

Answer 1

Antartica, it's NOT JUST ICE! There is dirt, and grass.  :]

Answer 2

Antarctica is a continent. It is land covered by ice. In places, the ice is very thick. Ice that moves, because of its great weight and transformation into a special type of ice that is under tremendous pressure, is called a glacier. A glacier is like a river of ice. Because so much of Antarctica is covered in ice, the Antarctic is said to be covered by a continental ice sheet.

Because the climate in Antarctica is very cold, the ice sheet grows very slowly. Cold air can hold less moisture than warm air and there needs to be moisture in the form of snow to make a glacier. Because it is so cold, there is less snowfall in Antarctica than there is in mountainous regions of North America like the Rockies. The glaciers in Antarctica are called polar glaciers, a name that tells you it must be very cold. Glaciers that form in mountainous regions of North America are referred to as temperate glaciers and they typically grow faster than the ones in Antarctica due to greater snowfall.

No matter where glaciers are found, the ice is vulnerable to global warming which causes the glacial ice to melt -- sometimes very quickly. When glacial ice melts, a glacier is said to be "in retreat".

Answer 3

i think it's just ice

Answer 4

well, it's a continent so i'm pretty sure there's some land there somewhere...lolzzz..

by the way, it's spelled 'antarctica'

Answer 5

Antarctica is soil. Its just land in a very cold climate meaning that the soil is frozen, but it's just covered in ice and snow, but it isn't made of it.

Hope that helps :)

Answer 6

There is land.

Answer 7

i think its land covered with ice.