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What percentage of antarctica is and and what percent is barren rock?
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∙ 9y ago
One hundred percent of Antarctica is, and only about two percent of the continent is not covered by its ice sheet.
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What percent of Antarctica is covered in rocks?
98% of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet; the remaining 2% of land is barren rock
What percent of Antarctica is an rock?
99.9
How would you describe the wind chill factor in Antarctica?
its really cold and its covered in ice and barren rock
What percentage is the moon covered with water?
There is no liquid water on the Moon. It's surface is barren rock and dust.
What Land forms are in antarctica?
The landforms in Antarctica are Dry Valleys, Mountains and Barren Rock.
What is antarctica made of besides ice?
Antarctica is a continent composed of rock, soil, and other continental bits. Ninety-eight percent of the continent is covered with an ice sheet.
What is a sentence for the word barren?
My uncle's first wife had been barren, but he had two sons from his second wife. The barren desert was interrupted only by an infrequent oasis. The surface of the Moon is made of barren rock and dust.
Is there really corn on the moon?
No. The moon is a barren rock and nothing grows there. no
What is made up of dust and rock?
Deserts Asteroid belts Barren mountains
How did the barren island volcano form?
The Barren Island volcano is located near a subduction zone, where a section of Earth's oceanic crust slips into the mantle, bringing some water with it. The water alters the chemistry of the hot rock of the mantle, allowing it to melt. This molten rock has risen to form volcanoes, including the one on Barren Island.
What is the rock formation underneath antarctica?
Antarctica is a large continent and as such has a lot of different rock formations incorporating igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
How are composition the same between comets and asteroids?
The rocky, gritty material in a cometary nucleus is probably much like a solid asteroid in chemical profile. But most asteroids are solid, barren rock - the comet has a large percentage of ices in it.
