geographical reason
Antarctica is known as white continent why? 5 marks
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Antarctica is located in the southernmost part of the world. It covers an area of 14,000,000 square km and is the fifth-largest continent of the world.98% of the Geographical area is covered by ice which is about 1.6 km thick. 90% of the total ice of the earth is found in Antarctica. As it is completely covered with ice it is also called white continent.Snow hardly ever melts on most areas of the continent, after becoming compressed, it forms glacier ice which makes the ice sheet.There are no trees in Antarctica because it is both too cold and too dry for them to grow.
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Antarctica is a permanently frozen Continent, windswept continent that is so remote and has such a hostile environment that it has no permanent inhabitants. Huge expanses of ice fields make up Antarctica the frozen.continent around the South Pole. The most common picture that comes to mind when one thinks about Antarctica is of colonies of penguins waddling around on the ice.
The word 'Antarctica' means 'opposite to the Arctic'. The Arctic region is situated near the North Pole while Antarctica is around the South Pole. The thick cover of ice also gives Antarctica the name-the White Continent.