Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Large masses of ice that move only a few inches per year.
What are glaciers and ice sheets?
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Large cylinders of ice drilled out of glaciers to study climate change.
What are ice cores?
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A body of water that flows within a chan
What is a stream?
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A large body of water that forms in a basin surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
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Water that lies below the ground.
What is groundwater?
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Large masses of ice that flow downhill like rivers.
What are alpine glaciers?
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A greenhouse gas that can cause climate change.
What is CO2?
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A depression or low spot in the channel of a stream.
What is a pool?
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Weird weather patterns over lakes.
What is lake effect?
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A hole drilled into the ground to bring groundwater to the surface.
What is a well?
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Large masses of ice that move outward from central locations.
What are ice sheets?
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A back and forth relationship with rising temperature, and melting snow and ice.
What is positive feedback loop?
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A stream flows over uneven ground is called _________.
What is a riffle?
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Humans putting toxic stuff in water.
What is lake pollution?
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The water's ability to flow through rock and sediment.
What is permeability?
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The slow build up and compaction of snow and ice.
What is the formation of glaciers?
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One cause of rising sea levels.
What are melting glaciers?
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Small streams that form near divides.
What is a headwater?
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Not Constant.
What is lake water level?
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The upper limit of the saturated zone.
What is a water table?
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Ice sheets only form here.
Where are Antarctica and Greenland?
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Another cause of rising sea levels.
What is melting sea ice?
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A coastal area where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from seas or oceans.
What is an estuary?
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A shallow depression surrounded by higher ground.
What is a basin?
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A measure of rock's ability to hold water.
What is porosity?
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