An activity guide where students build a model of Antarctica with its ice shelves. They use it to explore the impact of ice shelves melting in the Antarctic, and will discover that frozen ice shelves actually prevent ice further inland from destabilizing and sliding into the ocean. Includes background information for students.

Concepts

climate change, antarctica

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Additional Tags

glacial ice, glacial melt, polar ice, antarctic geological drilling: what if the ice shelves melted?, antarctic ice, larsen b. ice shelf, melting ice shelves

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