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Icebergs and Glaciers

What are these people looking at? Only 1% of Earth’s surface is covered by fresh water. Most of the fresh water can be found in ice sheets. An ice sheet is a huge slab of ice and snow that covers a very large area of land for thousands of years. Currently, Antarctica and Greenland have the only ice sheets in the world. Where are Antarctica and Greenland located?

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Seymour Simon

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