polar cap

polar cap

English

Noun

polar cap (plural polar caps)

1. (planetology) A high-latitude region of a celestial body that is covered by ice.

   Earth's polar caps may melt if global warming continues.

   The southern polar cap of Mars consists of both carbon dioxide and water ice.

Related terms

• ice cap
• ice sheet

Translations

high-latitude region covered by ice

Armenian: բևեռային գլխարկ (beweṙayin glxark) Basque: poloetako izotz-geruzak Belarusian: палярная шапка (paliarnaia shapka) Catalan: casquet polar Finnish: napajäätikkö (fi) French: inlandsis (fr), calotte polaire (fr) German: Polare Eiskappen, Polkappen (de) Hindi: ध्रुवीय बर्फ टोपी (dhruvīy bark ṭopī) Icelandic: íshvel

Indonesian: tudung es kutub Italian: calotta polare Japanese: 極冠 (きょくかん, kyokukan) Persian: کلاهک یخی‎ (fa) Polish: polarna czapa lodowa Portuguese: calota polar Russian: поля́рная ша́пка f (poljárnaja šápka) Slovak: polárna čiapka Spanish: casquete polar, capa de hielo

Further reading

• polar cap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia