SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest block of ice on Earth. It covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles) and contains about 30 million cubic kilometers (7.2 million cubic miles) of water.

Detailed explanation-2: -Two great ice masses, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, stand out in the world today and may be similar in many respects to the large Pleistocene ice sheets. About 99 percent of the world’s glacier ice is in these two ice masses, 91 percent in Antarctica alone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Glaciers are masses of snow that has been compressed into giant sheets of ice. Most glaciers were formed during the last ice age. Glaciers are massive bodies of slowly moving ice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Glaciers and Ice Sheets (Land Ice) Glaciers originate on land as snow that remains long enough to transform into ice. Glaciers form when snow accumulates over many years and is compressed into large, thick masses of ice. Glaciers are usually larger than one-tenth of a square kilometer.