Ice Age Crossword
Across
- 2. bowl-like depression formed when mountains and valley walls are carved by glaciers at high elevations
- 5. different rock types transported by ice and deposited somewhere else
- 6. we have been in this interglacial period since 11 700 years ago when the last glacial period ended
- 8. times where Earth is not covered with large ice sheets that occur between glacial periods
- 9. a period in geological history with colder temperatures.
- 10. rocks transported by glaciers that are of the same type of rock
Down
- 1. what people generally know as an ice age;when the earth is covered largely with glaciers and ice sheets
- 3. formed when glaciers slope downwards and flow through previously formed V-shaped valleys made by rivers; the glacier widens the floor and steepens the floor of the valley
- 4. an extended period time characterized by a significant development
- 7. the most recent time during the last glacial period that the ice sheets were at their greatest; the time where they covered the most of the earth and were the thickest.