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A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
What is the defenition of a glacier?
100
forms when a depression left in till by melting ice fills with water.
What is a kettle lake?
100
when glaciers carve away the sides of a mountain, the result is a sharpened peak.
What is a horn?
100
the mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface.
What is a till?
100
ABRASION
What is the second process by which the glacier erodes the land?
200
The process by which a glacier picks up rocks as it flows over the land.
What is plucking?
200
a long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow.
What is drumlin?
200
in a cold climate area on land were it snows faster than the snow can melt.
What is the condition for a glacier to form?
200
a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in a glacial till.
What is a kettle?
200
30 to 40 meters
What is the distance down before gravity begins to pull at the glacier?
300
times in the past when continenetal glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface.
What is an ice age?
300
glaciers may leave behind large lakes in long basins.
What is a glacial lake?
300
a flowing glacier scoops out this landform.
What is a u-shaped valley?
300
abrasion.
What is the process that gouges and scratches bedrock?
400
A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
What is continental glacier?
400
a bowl shaped hollow eroded by a glacier.
What is a Cirque?
400
Glacial erosion picks sediment up, while glacial deposition drops the sediment off.
What is the difference between glacial deposition and glacial erosion?
400
when the glacier melts.
What is causes a glacier to deposit sediment?
400
u-shaped valley
What is the result of glaciers freezing and melting in a v shaped valley?
500
A long narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley.
What is valley glacier?
500
a sharp ridge separating two cirques.
What is an arete?
500
forms where a glacier deposits mounds or ridges of till.
What is a moraine?
500
when a glacier gathers a huge amount of rock and soil as it erodes the land in its path.
What is glacier deposition?
500
mountain valleys.
What is the type of landform where valley glaciers are found?
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