Try this fun experiment involving icebergs, density

Meteorologist Kristen Kirchhaine breaks down this fun at-home experiment to help learn about icebergs and density.

Gears a little... but stickingwith science... I have anexperiment for you to try...have you ever wondered why aniceberg floats in the ocean -áinsteadá of the bottom of thesea?

It's all about density,check thisToday we are going to talkabout icebergs, and in theprocess, learn a little bitabout density.

What you'llneed for this experiment, acontainer, something that youcan see through, filled upwith a couple inches of water.You're also going to need someballoons.

You're going to takeone of your balloons, fill itup with some water and stickit in the freezer for a fewhours until it's completelyfrozen.

This is going torepresent our iceberg.

Andthen you'll just need a pairof scissors tcut the balloonaway from the chunk of ice.

Soyou're going to take yourballoon, and we're going touse our scissors to cut awaythe balloon from our chunk ofice, so you want to be carefulwhen you do this, it shouldcome off of here, fairlyeasily.

Especially if you havea good pair of scissors.

Sowhat's happened ithat as ourwater has frozen and turnedinto ice.

It's actually becomeless dense than water in itsliquid form.

So this is a goodteachable moment to just pauseand say, 'now that we knowthat our ice is a little bitless dense than our liquidwater.

What do you think isgoing to happen when we dropthis into the water?'

So nowwe're ready to drop ouriceberg into the water andwatch what happens.

Just likean iceberg floating in theocean, what we can see isabout 90% of our ice here isbelow the surface of the waterand only about 10% is abovethe surface of the water.

Soagain, the reason that thisexperiment works is becausewater in it's solid form, asice, is slightly less densethan water in its liquid form,and that allows our ice tofloat, similar to when youmake yourself a drink in yourice floats to the top.Meteorologist KristenKirchhaine, TMJ4 News