polar ice
Frozen cap material
Polar ice is the massive sheets, caps, and floating ice found in Earth's Arctic and Antarctic regions.
It includes glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice that persists year-round in polar climates.
The term appears frequently in discussions of climate change, where melting polar ice contributes to rising sea levels: Scientists are tracking the accelerating loss of polar ice.
- cryosphereEarth's frozen water systems
- North PoleEarth's northern axis point
- South PoleSouthernmost point on Earth
- meltwaterWater from melted ice
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
glaciology · calving · glacial melt · frozen tundra · glacial retreat · snowpack · glacier · sea level rise · climate change · global warming · floe · penguin · iceberg · arctic · white · expedition · crevasse · frigid
- oceanwaves, Atlantic, sea, Pacific, tide
- 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
- earth scienceatmosphere, earthquake, geology, volcano, crust
polar icetropical waters
Seas near the equator
desert heat · Sahara · tropical zone · hot springs · volcanic heat
polar iceliquid water
H2O in flowing state
open water · steam · water vapor · magma
polar icetropical rainforest
Humid equatorial biome with dense vegetation
jungle · Amazon · coral reef · tropical paradise · savanna
ice, polar, polarization, polarity, polarizing, bipolar, polarize, polarized, multipolar