The Ross Ice Shelf is still standing on the cold , bitter , and lonely continent of Antarctica. If somebody to asked you to list all the things you know about ice, you would probably write things like, cold, wet, is found in could places, but in this paragraph,you will find out there is a lot more to ice than you would think. For instance, ice isn't just sitting there in clumps everywhere, it's in different forms. Also, a lot of ice is found in Antarctica, some of which I will be talking about. The largest accumulations of ice are called ice sheets.
Ice sheets act as blankets.
They hide all the land's mountains, valleys, plains, etc. from view. In Antarctica, there are two large ice sheets, the West Antarctic Sheet, and the East Antarctic sheet. Another form of ice is an ice shelf. Since ice shelves float, they are at the edge of the continent. An ice stream is the fastest moving ice formation.