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What is the size of South America in comparison to other continents?
South America is the fourth largest continent (out of 7).
What is the largest Largest Island?
GREENLAND Australia is an island continent. Greenland is one-third its size.
What was temp on February 1 1983 in Antarctica?
Antarctica is a continent the size of US and Mexico combined. The temperature on that date -- somewhere on the continent -- was 68 degrees below zero F.
What are Changes such as an increase in height or the size of the brain are called?
maturation
What is the countinent of Sudan?
Sudan is located in northeast Africa. To be more precise, it is right under Egypt, on the right of Chad, and on the left Ethiopia.
Which continent changes its size during seasons?
Antarctica is a continent that changes in size during the seasons due to the expansion and contraction of its ice sheets. During the winter months, the continent expands as more sea ice forms, while in the summer months, the ice melts causing the continent to shrink in size.
What continents changes it size depending on the season?
Antarctica is a continent that changes size depending on the season, as its ice sheets expand and contract with the varying temperatures. The continent can nearly double in size during the winter months when the ice is at its maximum extent.
How big is antarctica in the summer?
Antarctica is a continent and does not change size based on seasons.
When is Antarctica smaller and bigger?
The continent of Antarctica does not change size. However, the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent during summer merges with the sea ice that forms during the winter, effectively doubling the size of the continent.
Which continent nearly doubles in size during winters?
Antarctica
Is Antarctica growing?
Antarctica is a land mass and land masses do not change size depending on the seasons. However, 98% of the Antarctic continent is covered by an ice sheet. During the winter months, the sea ice of the Southern Ocean which surrounds the continent, freezes, thus, essentially doubling the size of the ice sheet.
Why does Antarctica increase size in certain parts of the year?
The size of the continent remains constant. What increases is the ice sheet when it joins the sea ice that freezes during winter, essentially doubling in size. During the summer, the ice sheet covers 98% of the continent.
What continent change size during the season?
Antarctica is a continent that can change size seasonally due to the expansion and contraction of sea ice around its coast. During the Southern Hemisphere summer, the sea ice extent decreases, causing the continent's size to appear smaller, while in winter, the sea ice expands, making it seem larger.
Why does the size of antarctica change throughout the year?
The size of the continent does not change. However, the sea ice of the Southern Ocean freezes during the winter months, and joins with the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent. Essentially, this combined ice is about twice the size of the Antarctic continent.
This planet has ice caps which change in size with the seasons?
Mars is the planet with ice caps that change in size with the seasons. These polar ice caps are composed of water and carbon dioxide ice. They grow during the Martian winter and shrink during the Martian summer.
How big is antarctica in winter?
The continent of Antarctica remains the same -- about 10% of the earth's surface. However, the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent joins with the sea ice that freezes, and essentially doubles the size of the mass.
Why does Antarctica double in size each winter?
The continent itself is land, and land does not generally change in size -- except for volcanic lands. The sea ice that freezes around the continent freezes with and connects to the ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica during winter, and effectively the size of this ice mass, then, doubles the size of the ice sheet that covers the continent.
