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(where Mount Everest is found) for their drinking water supplies! ... in the crater left when. Mt St Helens exploded. in 1980. North America. Siberia. Kenya ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Where in the World is the ICE


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Where in the World is the ICE?
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Greenland
Did you know? If all the ice in Greenland
melted, world sea-level would rise by 7
metres!
Did you know? 90 of Earths ice is found here.
The ice here is sometimes over 4000-5000 metres
deep.
Antarctica
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Himalayas
Did you know? Hundreds of millions of people
depend on summer meltwater running off the
46,298 Himalayan glaciers (where Mount Everest
is found) for their drinking water supplies!
Did you know? Scientists are worried about the
massive glaciers found in the Andes mountains,
Peru and Patagonia. They think global warming
is causing them to melt more quickly.
South America
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Alps
Did you know? Climate change means Europes
glaciers are melting so quickly that they may
have all but vanished by 2050. Bad news for
skiers!
Did you know? New Zealands glaciers were the
setting for the films of Lord of the Rings
New Zealand (off-screen)
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North America
Siberia
Did you know? One of the worlds youngest
glaciers is growing here, in the crater left
when Mt St Helens exploded in 1980
Did you know? Siberia is one of the coldest
populated places on Earth
Kenya
Did you know? There are glaciers At high
altitude in Kenya where Mount Kilimanjaro is
located
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