Instructions:
Match each description with the correct location on earth.
- In this place (whose name does not fit its appearance), the ice sheet is losing 163 billion tons of ice per year, up from 51 million per year in the 1990s.
- On this continent, the ice that is part of the world’s tallest mountain range and supplies hundreds of millions of people with drinking water is melting!
- Collapsing ice shelves on this continent—which is the least populated in the world—are moving glaciers into the sea. It is losing 81 billion tons of ice each year.
- In this northernmost US state, 98% of the glaciers are thinning or retreating.
- Glaciers in the tropical part of the Andes Mountains are losing ice at a rate that has tripled over the past 30 years—faster than at any time in the past 300 years.
- This country has an extinct volcano that is the second-highest mountain on the continent (after Mt. Kilimanjaro). It is losing ice rapidly, and only 10% of its original ice covering remains.
- On this continent, the glaciers in the Alps could disappear by the year 2100—which would destroy water supplies, hydropower, and tourism.
- The glaciers in Glacier National Park could disappear within 20 years.
- In this ocean, sea ice is at its lowest level in more than 1,400 years. In the very near future, it could be ice-free in the summer.
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