Earth's Frozen Water Vocabulary

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