floe
Arctic sea raft
A floe is a sheet of floating ice, typically broken off from a larger mass such as a glacier or ice shelf.
Floes range from small fragments to enormous platforms spanning miles, drifting with ocean currents and winds.
The term appears most often in the phrase ice floe and in discussions of polar regions, where floes provide habitat for seals and polar bears.
The expedition's ship navigated carefully through the floes.
Floating glacial fragment
- pack iceConsolidated floating sea ice
- bergFloating mass of frozen water
- sea iceFrozen ocean surface
- sheetFlat rectangular material
frozen · drift ice · ice shelf · ice cap · ice field · growler · lead · pressure ridge
Of extreme latitudes
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- Arctic OceanEarth's northernmost body of water
- InuitArctic indigenous people
- polar bearLarge white arctic mammal
walrus · seal · beluga · narwhal · Greenland · Svalbard · Nunavut · Northwest Passage
Directed flow of charge
- tideOcean's cyclical swell
- driftingMoving without purpose
- buoyancyFluid's upward resistance
- movementChange in position
wind-driven · ocean current · gyre · navigation · hazard · shipping lane · collision · Titanic
Interconnected organisms and surroundings
- marineRelating to the sea
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- sealsAquatic whiskered mammals
- krillSmall marine crustaceans
algae · plankton · polar bear hunting · breeding ground · Antarctic · penguin · biodiversity · climate change
iceberg
Floating glacial fragment
sheet · frozen · drift ice · ice shelf · ice cap · ice field · growler · lead · pressure ridge · rafting
polar
Of extreme latitudes
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- Arctic OceanEarth's northernmost body of water
- InuitArctic indigenous people
polar bear · walrus · seal · beluga · narwhal · Greenland · Svalbard · Nunavut · Northwest Passage · icebreaker
current
Directed flow of charge
movement · wind-driven · ocean current · gyre · navigation · hazard · shipping lane · collision · Titanic · tracking
ecosystem
Interconnected organisms and surroundings
krill · algae · plankton · polar bear hunting · breeding ground · Antarctic · penguin · biodiversity · climate change · melting
- ice and snowiceberg, icicle, glacier, sea ice, pack ice
- frozen landstundra, glacier, iceberg, ice sheet, ice cap
- iceiceberg, ice sheet, ice cap, ice shelf, glacial ice
- glaciersglacier, crevasse, glacial movement, moraine, iceberg
- Ice formationsglacier, ice sheet, ice cap, ice shelf, pack ice
- sea icepack ice, drift ice, ice field, ice pack, ice patch
floeopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
liquid water · sea · meltwater · ocean · seawater
floeopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
open sea · clear water · open ocean · lead
- ice floeFloating polar mass