Glaciers and Stuff
A body of ice floating in the ocean.
What is an iceberg
A large boulder dropped in a random place.
What is an erratic?
The process of a piece of a glacier breaking off into the ocean or onto land.
What is calving?
When a glacier builds up snow and ice.
What is advancing?
A large pile of rocks of all shapes and sizes.
What is unsorted?
A glacier melts on the summer months.
What is retreating?
When glaciers melt, these are created.
What are rivers and lakes?
What is glaciofluvial activity?
The first step to creating a glacier.
What is snow?
Glacial ice that is floating on the surface of the ocean (not detached form a glacier).
What is an ice shelf?
A flow of ice created by many layers of snow.
What is a glacier?
A pile of rocks left by a retreating glacier.
What is a moraine?
A glacier creates valleys that are this shape.
What are U-shaped valleys?
The area where glaciers lose their mass.
What is the ablation area?
Glaciers are found in these to areas.
What are the poles and mountains?
The very front of a glacier.
What is the terminus?
Straight lines carved in rock - evidence of glaciation.
What are striations?
When a glacier builds up snow and ice.
What is advancing?
Area where glaciers are formed.
Glaciers are broken into these two categories.
What are continental and alpine glaciers?
The largest glacier in the world
What is the Lambert-Fisher glacier?
Landform commonly found in the outwash plains of a glacier.
Glaciers move this much per day.
What is 3.3 feet or 1 meter?
True or False: Glaciers are found on every continent
What is False. They are found on every continent except Australia.
When the rate of accumulation and ablation are the same.