crossword on glaciers definitions
Across
- 3. 8 A process of erosion involving the wearing away of the valley floor and sides.
- 7. 9,4 An eroded interlocking spur characterised by having a very steep cliff.
- 9. 8 A process of glacial erosion where rocks are puled out from the valley floor and sides as water freezes them to the glacier.
- 10. 9,4 A sharp edged mountain peak formed where 3 corries meet leaving behind the peak.
- 12. 7 A finger of ice which flows downhill occupying a valley from a ice cap.
- 15. 3,3 A smaller body of ice and is usually found in mountainous regions.
- 16. 7,6 A wide, steep sided valley eroded by a glacier.
- 17. 5 A knife edged ridge which forms between to corries.
- 18. 7 Sediment carried and deposited by ice. You can find a lateral, medial, ground and terminal type of these.
Down
- 1. 7,6 A tributary glacier trough perched up on the side of a main valley, they usually have a waterfall.
- 2. 5 The front of the glacier.
- 4. 4 A small mountain lake usually found in a corrie.
- 5. 6 A deep depression on a hill side with a steep back wall.
- 6. 7 An egg shaped hill found on the floor of a glacial trough.
- 8. 10,4 Slippage of ice along a curved surface.
- 11. 4,7 Shows the changes in height and shape along the length of the glacier, from its source in the mountains down to its snout.
- 13. 6,4 A long narrow lake in the bottom of a glacial trough.
- 14. 3,5 A large body of ice over 50,000km in size.