Grade 5 | SPEECH & LANGUAGE

Earth's Ice

Susan Rose Simms
  • Grades / Interest Level 5 - 12
  • Reading Level 3
  • Lexile HL650
  • Format 5½" x 8½"
  • Pages 48
  • Product Code 2272-9 ( MR #068191 )

Price $10.95

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Can you picture ice that is miles thick? What about icebergs big enough to sink ships? Some places on Earth are cold all the time. In many of these places, there is always ice and snow. Learn about ice sheets, glaciers, permafrost, and other things that make up all of Earth’s ice!
 
Glossary: algae, alpine glaciers, calve, continental glaciers, cryosphere, firn, glacial ice, ice caps, ice sheet, ice shelf, iceberg, moraine, non-tabular, permafrost, polar ice, satellite, sea ice, tabular
 
Table of Contents
  • What is the Cryosphere?
  • Polar Ice
  • Alpine Glaciers
  • Continental Glaciers
  • Icebergs
  • Permafrost

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