GLACIATION TERMINOLOGY

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Across
  1. 1. A protected area where glacial landscapes may be found and visited.
  2. 4. A small lake in a corrie left after the glacier melts.
  3. 5. A steep-sided, flat-bottomed valley carved by a glacier.
  4. 8. Rock fragments frozen into the glacier scrape the land like sandpaper.
  5. 10. A large rock left behind by a glacier in an unusual location.
  6. 11. A large layer of ice covering a big area of land, e.g. Antarctica.
  7. 12. The wearing away of rock by ice, water or wind.
  8. 13. Long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns, affecting glaciers.
  9. 16. Ice pulls pieces of rock away from the ground as it moves.
  10. 17. When a glacier drops material it was carrying.
  11. 18. Rock and debris left behind by a glacier.
  12. 19. A long period in Earth’s history when ice covered large parts of the land.
Down
  1. 2. Flat area where meltwater from a glacier deposits sediment.
  2. 3. When water gets into cracks, freezes, expands, and breaks the rock apart.
  3. 6. The mixture of unsorted rock and sediment dropped by a glacier.
  4. 7. A bowl-shaped hollow high up in the mountains where a glacier begins.
  5. 8. A sharp ridge between two glacial valleys.
  6. 9. The front end of the glacier.
  7. 14. Lines on a map which help to identify landforms on an OS map
  8. 15. A large mass of moving ice that flows slowly downhill.