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An ice mass covering more than 50,000 square kilometres of land is classified as what?

Correct answer B. Ice sheet

Explanation

Glaciologists define an ice sheet as a continental glacier covering more than 50,000 km²; smaller domes are ice caps, and only Antarctica and Greenland have ice sheets today.

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