ice caps
Glacial polar covers
Ice caps are thick masses of ice and snow that permanently cover polar regions or mountain summits.
The term usually refers to the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, though smaller permanent ice formations on high peaks also qualify.
Climate discussions often invoke melting ice caps as evidence of global warming.
Despite the name, an ice cap is not a cap in any structural sense—just a covering.
- glaciersSlow-moving ice masses
- cryosphereEarth's frozen water systems
- North PoleEarth's northern axis point
- South PoleSouthernmost point on Earth
- Arctic CircleNorthern latitude marking perpetual daylight zone
calving · permafrost · polar regions · Greenland · Antarctic · melting · rising seas · polar climate · glacial retreat · climate change · climate crisis · snowpack · white · albedo · penguins · tundra · polar bears · frozen
- polar regionsAntarctica, polar bears, Arctic Ocean, glaciers, Arctic
- polar scienceglaciology, Antarctic research, Arctic, glacier retreat, polar climate
- spacespace, sun, moon, stars, star
- ArcticArctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic wildlife, Arctic exploration, Arctic research
- climateclimate change, climate, weather, global warming, temperature
- Climate Changeglobal warming, greenhouse gases, climate change, carbon dioxide, CO2
ice capsdeserts
Abandons or barren lands
lava fields · tropics · equatorial regions · Sahara Desert · Death Valley
ice capsopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
oceans · seasonal snow · meltwater · warm currents · tropical seas
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