Sentences with phrase «round ice cover»

For one thing, year - round ice cover is important to animals like polar bears, which use it as their hunting grounds.

Not exact matches

I then pasted on another covering of melted jam and rolled out the white icing to a 10 inch round and covered the cake.

For a prefect ice cream round: line a 23 cm x 33 cm pan with foil then evenly spread freshly - churned ice cream into the pan with a rubber spatula; cover and freeze overnight.

Today, the Arctic is covered by ice all the year round, except for holes up to a few kilometres wide which open briefly between the ice sheets.

Luckily, if you just purchased a round of pizzas for the class and were wondering if you should go for an ice cream finale, you could very well be covered.

The islands bordering the Scotia Sea are rocky and partly covered in ice and snow year round; despite these harsh conditions, however, the islands do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands, and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea, as well as the remote South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano called Bouvet Island.

With over 60 % of the park being covered with snow and ice all year round, a visit to Kenai is the ultimate ice age experience.

When these factors combine in such a way that summers are cool and short enough that they fail to melt back the previous year's winter ice cover to the usual degree, the «permanent» (as in year round) ice extent in the north begins to grow and spread south.

Polar bears living in regions (such as Hudson's Bay and Svalbard) that were not ice covered all year round even before global warming spend the warmer months on land where they are a real danger (male polar bears are the only healthy carnivore that routinely stalks and hunts people).

The technological challenges involved with sampling the deep, more remote, or ice - covered regions, as well as obtaining good winter data, require year - round access to field sites with specialist research vessels.

Because the Arctic is largely ice - covered year - round, it acts as a «refrigerator» for the earth, keeping the Arctic and the rest of the earth cooler than it would be without ice.

In 1974 a large polinya (about the size of the UK) was detected near the Weddell Sea, a vast bay between 60 - 40 W which normally remains largely ice - covered year - round.

Greenland appears considerably browner round the edges, having lost around 15 %, or 300,000 sq km, of its permanent ice cover.

In this case, the Arctic will change from having year round to seasonal sea - ice cover.

I thought the cake would be easy peasy too — just two round vanilla cakes baked the night before, then covered in pre-bought chocolate icing and Maltesers on the day.

Maybe use a round cardboard box and cover it with polyurethane sealant as the icing?