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What effect will the ice caps melting have?
The salinity levels will go down, affecting the wildlife that requires lots of salt water to live in. Also, another kind of bad situation would appear before us - climate. If the ice caps melt, the climate will get affected which changes the weather. It is more likely that more weather disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis and many more would increase. The final problem - sea levels. To put simply, the ice caps are like ice cubes. When an ice cube gets chucked into a warm cup of water, it would melt in a couple of minutes. The same goes with ice caps. The water is so warm that it speeds up the process of the ice caps melting. = Support Question: =

4. What will happen to the oceans if the ice caps melt(salinity levels)?
**(First Paragraph related to Support Question 1)** Salt water can freeze at 28 degrees farenheit and when frozen for a long time, the salt leeches out of the ice, making it fresh water.

If the ice caps melt the salinity levels will decrease due to the extra amount of water melted into the ocean affecting the salt-water creatures.

The sea levels will also rise rapidly making all the humans plus animals move to higher ground and land.

The temperatures will rise if the ice caps melt since the ice caps act like mirrors - ice caps reflect the suns rays, then the rays fling back into space. If there is no more ice caps, the heat wouldn't be reflected and be absorbed by the ocean, thus making the Earth warmer.

5. How will this affect the worlds climate?
The climate, in simple words, is like the weather. Thunderstorms or a sunny day, hurricanes and floods, it's all climate.

The climate rate would go horridly high if the ice caps melt. As the ocean absorbs more heat, it is more likely hurricanes will appear. Hurricanes move around with the help of warm water, and that will happen if our waters temperature continues to rise.

6. What will happen to the continents if the ice caps melt?
​ Most of the world's ice is in Antarctica. It is covered by an ice shelf 2,133 metres thick with an estimate of 7,000 feet. If the whole Antarctica melts, then the ocean levels will rise by 61 metres. (200 feet.) But this is unlikely to happen. Only a portion of Antarctica would melt, increasing the ocean by a few metres or feet.

People living on lower grounds would have to move to higher places. Ever since the early 20th century, the Earth's population rate was almost at 2 billion. But today, we're nearly going to pass 7 billion.

If everyone moves to higher grounds, the new countries would be overpopulated since there are quite a few low leveled grounds in some countries.

Another problem would hit our heads - what's going to happen to our World Map? Well, of course, we would have to redraw the Earth's World Map.

Lots of farmland is mostly located at low level grounds. If farmlands were flooded by salt water, the crops and land would be ruined and food sources would be a big issue. Farmers would need to move to higher ground, which is more rocky and less suited for the crops to grow on.