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When thick ice sheets covered the land during ice ages, sea levels dropped because much of the Earth's water was locked up in ice. This exposed more land, including parts of the ocean floor, creating land bridges between continents like the famous Bering Land Bridge between Asia and North America. Ocean currents and temperatures changed, affecting weather patterns and marine life. Nutrient flows in the oceans also altered, impacting the food chains. As the ice melted at the end of ice ages, sea levels rose again, submerging these bridges and reshaping Coastlines and marine environments.
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What are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
Are thick sheets of ice?
a thick sheet of ice
The Great Lakes area was once covered by thick sheets of ice When the ice melted, the land around began to rise What is the name of that process?
isostatic rebound
Mountain and ice biome?
Some areas of land are not part of any major biome. These areas include mountains ranges and land that is covered with thick sheets of ice.
Which continent has the steepest slope?
Antarctica has the steepest average slope of any continent, with much of its surface being covered by thick ice sheets that can create steep gradients.
Whicih galilean moon has a thick ocean?
We cannot be certain (yet!) but current theories speculate that the moon Europa may be covered with ice, and that beneath the ice there might be oceans. There do appear to be ridges in the surface, which might be caused by cracks forming in the ice and then the liquid water beneath freezing as the ice sheets come back together.
Which one of the worlds oceans is most likely made of ice?
Well, all the world's oceans are made of water. The Arctic Ocean may be covered with ice for a few months at a time. But only a few m thick at most.
A pack of 500 sheets of paper is 50mm thick how thick is one sheet?
To find the thickness of one sheet of paper, divide the total thickness of the pack (50mm) by the number of sheets in the pack (500 sheets). Each sheet of paper would be 0.1mm thick.
What is the difference in the north pole and the south pole?
They are both at separate ends of the world. The South Pole is land covered in ice and snow. The North Pole is thick ice sheets floating on the sea.
What is a sentence with the word ice age?
During the last ice age, much of North America was covered in thick sheets of ice.
What is Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called ice caps or?
Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called continental glaciers or ice caps. Examples of continental glaciers are in Antarctica and Greenland The ice sheets that form in these two locations are up to 3500 meters thick. thank you a lot
Which rays can not be stopped by thick sheets of lead?
gamma rays
