Question: How does water get into Glaciers? Answer: If there is leftover snow each year, snowfields will form and the snowfields may turn into glaciers. How does a place wind up with leftover snow?—It has to receive more snow than melts away every year! Question: Is the frozen water in a glacier "salt water" or "freshwater"? Answer: When mountain glaciers melt, the run-off water can be an important source of freshwater for animals and humans living downstream. Question: | Question: How does water get into polar ice caps? Answer: Polar ice caps form because high latitude regions receive less energy in the form of solar radiation from the sun than equatorial regions, resulting in lower surface temperatures. Question: Is the frozen water in a polar ice cap "salt water" or "fresh water"? Answer: I think polar ice caps have fresh water in them because there made of snow, and snow is not made of salt water. | Question: How does water get into floating sea ice? Answer: |
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