Definitions
Kinds of Glaciers
How Glaciers form and move
How Glaciers form the land
Landforms made by Glaciers
100
Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
What is Glacier
100
a long narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley.
What is Valley Glacier
100
A glacier that flows in all directions.
What is a continental glacier?
100
Tilt deposited at the edges of a glacier forming a ridge.
What is a moraine?
100
Its a sea filled valley cut by a glacier in a coastal region.
What is fiord?
200
A small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left ina glacial till.
What is kettle?
200
A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
What is Continental Glacier
200
A glacier that flows in a surge.
What is a Vally glacier?
200
10,000 years ago glaciers covering continents.
When was the last ice age?
200
Many rocks remain on the bottom of the glacier and the glacier drags them along the land, it then gauges and scratches the land.
How abrasion effects the bedrock?
300
The mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on a surface.
What is Till?
300
When continental glaciers covered larger parts of Earths surface.
What is an ice age?
300
A land form made after glaciers have melted.
What is a U-shaped Vally?
300
Its bowl shaped and hollow eroded by a glacier.
What is a cirque?
300
continental glaciers moving in all directions.
What is movement of glaciers covering Antarctica and Green Land?
400
As a glacier flows over land and picks up rock.
What is Plucking?
400
Where a continental glacier meets the ocean.
What is ice burg?
400
The two process in which glaciers erode the land.
What is plucking and abrasion?
400
A sharp ridge separating two cirques.
What is a arete?
400
When glaciers carve away the sides of a mountain .
What is a horn?
500
Is a long mound of till that is smoothed in a direction of the glacier's flow.
What is Drumlin?
500
Once the depth of snow and ice reaches more than 30-40 meters.
What is where glaciers form?
500
When a glacier melts, it deposits the sediment it eroded from the land.
What is how landforms are made?
500
A ridge at the farthest point reached by a glacier.
What is a terminal moraine?
500
Both create ,one picks up one drops.
What is the difference of glacial erosion and glacial deposition?
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