Studying Earth's Ice
The season in which Glaciers form.
What is Winter?
The strength of the gravitational force exerted on an object by a planet or moon.
What is Weight?
The contribution of glaciers to Earth's landscape.
What is reshaping land and carving out lakes, valleys, and fjords?
The two types of Glaciers.
What is Alpine and Continental Glaciers?
The circulation of water through the hydrosphere on Earth's surface to the atmosphere, and back again (from land to atmosphere, and back again).
What is the water cycle?
Continental Glacier that is 98% covered by ice and "is the coldest, driest continent in the world" (Lab Manual, pg. 4)
What is Antartica?
A result of when winter snowfalls are greater than summer snowmelts (winter is stronger than summer).
What is Glacier Expansion?
The two processes that Glaciers use that reshape Earth's landscape.
What is Erosion and Weathering?
The type of Glacier that is also known as ice sheets, and cover an extensive area of land.
What is Continental Glacier?
The stage of matter that has the least amount of thermal energy and molecule movement.
What is Solid?
A flowing mass of ice and snow accumulation that forms on mountain tops, as well as near the North and South poles.
What is Glaciers?
The reason a Glacier's own weight deforms its own ice and ends up flowing down mountains, or spreading across plain or oceans.
What is ice is softer than rock?
What is Glacier Till?
The type of Glacier that form at high altitudes, on mountains, and are known as the smaller of the two types.
The process that changes liquid water into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
The inorganic material that is formed using the same process as the formation of Glaciers.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
The formula to calculate the weight of an object on Earth.
What is Object's Mass x Force of Earth's Gravity?
Ex: Earth's Gravity (9.8 m/s2)
What is a Fjord?
The type of energy that is formed after a Glacier has started it's descent (movement) down a mountain.
What is Kinetic Energy?
The process of how water returns into the atmosphere through plants.
What is Transpiration?
One of the three stations on Antartica that acts as a base for scientists collecting data about the effects of Earth's changing temperature on Glaciers.
What is Palmer Station?
The Glacier in Alaska that was shown to have retreated (gotten smaller) by 7 miles in just 40 years.
"Ocean water now fills the valley where the glacier used to be" (Lab Manual, pg. 5).
What is Muir Glacier?
The breakdown of rocker into smaller pieces of sediment from exposure to wind, water, and/or biological forces.
What is weathering?
The potential energy that is stored as a result of the height of an object (the taller an object, the more _____ it has)
What is gravitational energy?
The processes involved in the water cycle.
What is Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation?