ice cap

noun

Definition of ice cap

1 : an ice bag shaped to the head

2 : a cover of perennial ice and snow specifically : a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center

Examples of ice cap in a Sentence

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One of the biggest potential dangers of increasing climate change is sea level rise caused by the melting of the polar ice caps. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Antarctica's Ice May Be More Durable Than We Thought," 13 June 2018 But because the southern winter is far more extreme than the northern winter, the southern polar ice caps grow more than twice as far as their northern counterparts. — Shannon Hall, New York Times, "Never Mind the Summer Heat: Earth Is at Its Greatest Distance From the Sun," 5 July 2018 During springtime, frozen carbon dioxide trapped below the ice cap turns from a solid state into a gas, forming features that from above look like dark spiders. — Shannon Stirone, WIRED, "Space Photos of the Week: Mars Has Spiders in the Springtime," 14 July 2018 The nearly five-hour hearing covered topics including the history of climate change research, carbon dioxide’s role as a greenhouse gas, melting ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather. — Sudhin Thanawala, The Seattle Times, "US judge throws out climate change lawsuits against big oil," 26 June 2018 Some of that lead settled on Greenland’s ice cap and mixed in with ever-accumulating layers of ice. — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, "Top stories: HPV vaccine debate, 2000-year-old pollution, and a lawmaker’s views on sea level rise," 18 May 2018 Subsequent research published in Nature magazine on the history of Greenland’s ice cap demonstrated this to be impossible. — Pat Michaels And, WSJ, "Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?," 21 June 2018 As Katie Langin at Science reports, researchers recently found some insight locked in Greenland’s ice cap. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Greenland’s Ice Provides a Year-By-Year Account of the Roman Empire’s Economy," 16 May 2018 Matt: Al wrote those lyrics long before there were any real fears about the melting polar ice caps. — Ron Hart, Billboard, "Cult Metal Favorites Sleep Talk Reunion Album, Third Man Records & Changing Attitudes Toward Marijuana," 8 June 2018

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