The Greenland ice sheet contains about 3 million cubic kilometers of ice. If completely melted, this ice would release about 2.1 million cubic kilometers of water, which would spread out over Earth's approximate 343 million square kilometers of ocean surface. How much would the sea level rise?
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The ocean surface area is given in square kilometers, so we need to convert the volume of water from cubic kilometers to cubic meters. 1 cubic kilometer is equal to 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) cubic meters. So, 2 million cubic kilometers of water is equal to Show more…
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