Earth's Frozen Water Vocabulary
Across
- 4. a large chunk of pack ice that break loose
- 5. a ridge of material deposited in front of a glacier when it stops moving
- 7. a sheet of ice that is rarely more than 5 meters thick that breaks easily
- 11. a glacier that melts faster than it grows or moves forward
- 13. a rounded drain in glacier ice formed by streams of melting snow
- 14. material deposited by the meltwater of a glacier
- 16. a winding ridge of sand and gravel left behind a melting glacier
- 18. Large bodies of moving mass of ice and snow
- 19. an upland area of ice that feeds two or more glaciers
Down
- 1. a glacier that grows and/or moves forward
- 2. water formed by the melting of snow and ice from a glacier
- 3. a crack in the ice
- 6. a glacier that forms in a mountain range
- 8. a glacier covering large areas of land—also called an ice cap
- 9. the collection of rocks, boulders, sand, clay and silt that is left behind as a glacier slows down and melts
- 10. a bowl-shaped basin carved by valley glaciers
- 12. a ridge formed when two or more glaciers act on a mountain – eroding it from two different directions
- 15. a sharpened peak formed the same way as an arete
- 17. when a glacier flows over a steep cliff and breaks up
- 19. a glacier that forms on an extensive area of relatively level land that flows out from its source