GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ice and snow on land are one part of the cryosphere. This includes the largest parts of the cryosphere, the continental ice sheets found in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as ice caps, glaciers, and areas of snow and permafrost.

Detailed explanation-2: -The cryosphere is the part of the Earth’s climate system that includes solid precipitation, snow, sea ice, lake and river ice, icebergs, glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, permafrost, and seasonally frozen ground.

Detailed explanation-3: -The frozen part of Earth’s hydrosphere is made of ice: glaciers, ice caps and icebergs. The frozen part of the hydrosphere has its own name, the cryosphere.

Detailed explanation-4: -snow. ice. frozen ground and permafrost. glaciers, which include alpine glaciers, ice caps, and the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica. ice shelves and icebergs. sea ice.