What is the total volume of the ice sheet on antarctica in cubic kilometers?

Let us first gathered the information needed:

Land area of Antarctica = 14,000,000 KM squared

Average thickness of Antarctic ice = 2.15 KM

Earth’s oceans cover a total surface area of 340,000,000 KM2

If the ice melts into water, the resulting water volume is about 5/6 of the original ice.

So after getting the necessary details, let’s do math.

(5/6) * (14,000,000 km) * (2.15 km) = 340,000,000 km

14,000,000km2 x 2.15km = 30,100,000km3

(5/6) x 30,100,000 = 25083333.33 volume of Antarctica’s water.

the correct answers are:

a - pacific plate;

it is the biggest oceanic tectonic plate. surrounded on all sides by continental tectonic plates, it is submerging and gradually becoming smaller and smaller.

b - north american plate;

huge continental plate, occupying big portion of the northern hemisphere.

c -eurasian plate;

alongside the north american plate, it is one of the two dominant continental plates in the northern hemisphere.

d - indian plate;

a small continental plate, that has been part of gondwanaland initially, but after the break up of it, moved towards northeast and pushed into the eurasian plate that was once part of laurasia.