Ice cap - online puzzles

An ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 of land area (usually covering a highland area ). Larger ice masses covering more than 50,000 km2 are termed ice sheets.

Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features (i.e., they will lie over the top of mountains ). By contrast, ice masses of similar size that are constrained by topographical features are known as ice fields. The dome of an ice cap is usually centred on the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the ice divide) towards the ice cap 's periphery.

Ice caps have significant effects on the geomorphology of the area that they occupy. Plastic moulding, gouging and other glacial erosional features become present upon the glacier 's retreat. Many lakes, such as the Great Lakes in North America, as well as numerous valleys have been formed by glacial action over hundreds of thousands of years.

On Earth, there are about 30 million km3 of total ice mass.

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