Even in Antarctica ice will melt. As the sun stays higher and higher in the sky as summer progresses, the warm sun causes the ice to melt. The questions that we are going to ask in the following activity are: Does clean ice (no sediment) or dirty ice (has sediment mixed in it) melt faster? and Would the ice melt if all the sunlight was reflected away?
To complete the following activity, use the pictures below to complete the data tables on the student handouts and then graph away.
A Video Clip of the Glacier Melting
