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If the north pole melt and not the south pole .Could Earth flip from gravity The south pole will be much more ice?Could gravity affect it?

2007-03-28 13:39:22 · 6 answers · asked by inga r 1 in Environment

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The north pole's ice floats on sea water. This is just like a glass of water with ice cubes floating in it. If the ice melts, no change in sealevel would result since floating ice displaces the same volume of water that would result from its melting. Try it with a glass of water. Add a few cubes, then fill the glass to the top with water. When the ice melts, the water level won't change very much. Some evaporation will occur but the glass won't overflow.
Without ice, the north pole would just be wetter. Poor polar bears:(
The south pole has lots of glacial ice that is on top of land. If it melted, the glacial ice would displace sea water and sea level would rise. This would change the earth.

2007-03-28 13:43:43 · answer #1 · answered by virgilwatson 2 · 0 0

If all of the ice at the North Pole were to melt, very little would happen. This ice is already floating on the sea, so there would be no change in sea level (well maybe it would decline a little). A few polar bears might be inconvienienced, but bears are very adaptable and they will find some way to get along. Same with some people.

2007-03-31 09:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

How could it happen, that all the ice on the North pole would melt, but none in the Antarctic?
The melting of the ice floating in the North affects neither sea level nor the stability of earth, but before the ice at the pole would melt, ice on land (Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, Scandinavia) will vanish, and the result of that will be a rising of the sea level -> Manhattan might cease to exist.
As most of the South polar ice is on land, melting of that would also let the sea level rise.
A reduction of ice around the North pole endangers the survival of the polar bear.

2007-03-28 13:49:25 · answer #3 · answered by corleone 6 · 0 1

Gravity pulls to the center. There would be no force to flip the earth over... Who's to say the north pole is not the bottom and the South pole on top? Not physics.

2007-03-28 17:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by Holden 5 · 0 0

The following would happen if the ice melts :-
1. the water level in the seas will rise by 4 metres.
2.many places will be submerged(ex Manhattan)
3.many creatures of the artic circle will be extinct.
4.there will be a vast difference in the climate.
5.at some places, there will be very low and erratic rainfall
6.some places could get severe floods
7.it will again stimulate and incease the global warming because the patch of ice that was reflecting the rays of the sun will no longer be there.

There will be know change with respect to gravity.

2007-03-28 19:34:02 · answer #5 · answered by Satya 2 · 0 0

If it did melt nothing would happen, cause it melts every year and has been since the last ice age.

2007-03-28 15:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by MSG 4 · 0 0

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