Glacier Erosion

2. A sharp steeple-shaped point when more than two cirques cut into a mountain peak
4. huge sheets of ice
9. another name for valley glaciers
10. broken chunks of rocks that are carried away and dumped in the ground when the glacier partially melts or retreats
11. period of widespread glaciation
13. glacier carved vallleys that fills wth sea water as the glacier melts
16. thin surface sheets of ice that cover both land and artic and antartic seas
17. is the carrying away of sediments of all sizes by moving glaciers
18. dettachment of rock sediments underneath the glacier
20. streams of water formed by glacier melting

1. an accumulation of till left by a retreating glacier
3. smoothed low hill tills formed by different moraine formation of different seasons
5. a sharp rigde that divides two cirques
6. Deep grooves or scratches in the bedrock produced by large rocks pushed along by the glacier movement
7. large holes left from the melting of huge chunks of glacieal ice lodge in till or outwash
8. Huge bowl-shaped depression on the top of snowy mountains cut out by valley glaciers
12. type of glacier that cover a large area of land
13. melt water from the surface that freezes in undergroud rock creating physical weathering by breaking the rocks underneath the glacier
14. place where sediments from beneath the ice are carried away by meltwater
15. type of glacier that covers mountains
19. deep cracks and fissures in the surface of the glaciers