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    Ice Science

    What is Ice? Glaciers, Ice Sheets and


    Ice is frozen water. Icebergs.
    Ice can float as it is You can see this at A glacier is a huge mass
    less dense than home. Take a of compacted snow and ice
    water. This means plastic drinks bottle that originates on land and
    that for a given and fill it with water. moves downslope in
    volume there would Freeze standing response to gravity.
    be more water upright in your Ice sheets are large
    molecules in liquid freezer. When you masses of ice which can
    water than in solid take it out, the ice cover more than
    water (ice). This is should be above the 50,000km2.
    quite unusual – level you filled your Ice shelves are slabs of
    when most liquids bottle to. So the glacier ice which float on
    solidify, the solid volume of space the sea.
    formed is more taken up by the Icebergs are large pieces
    dense than the water is greater of glacier ice that have
    liquid. when it is frozen. broken off and are now
    The bonds between the water molecules in floating on water.
    ice mean that ice takes up more space
    than the same mass of liquid water. Melting Icebergs
    Because of the relative
    Glacier Ice densities of the ice and the
    sea water, usually only 1/9 of
    Ice is frozen water. But the ice that forms
    the total iceberg is above sea
    glaciers is quite different from the ice
    level, the rest being below the
    cubes you get from your freezer. Instead it
    surface of the water.
    is snow that has been compacted over
    time – and all that compaction has given it When ice that is floating in water melts,
    quite a different crystal structure. there is no change in water level. This can
    be seen in the beakers here – an ice cube
    Glaciers contain more than
    has been placed in water in each one.
    just ice. As they move over
    Marked is the level of the water at the
    the ground they pick up
    beginning of the experiment. You can see
    bits of soil, rock, and
    that, as the ice melts, the water level
    organic material. Glacial
    remains about the same. Why do you think
    ice also contains lots of
    this is the case?
    bubbles of air under great
    pressure because of the So where does the rise in sea level from
    amount of compaction. If the melting of ice come from? It comes
    you put a piece of glacial from the melting of ice which is formed on
    ice in a glass of water, the land. Icebergs have broken off glaciers
    air in these bubbles rushes which were on land. We need to worry
    out as the ice melts, and about the melting of ice sheets – the
    could cause your glass to Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single
    explode! mass of ice on Earth containing 30 million
    km3 of ice! If this all melted, it would cause
    sea levels to rise by 61.1metres!

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