Glacier Vocabulary
Across
- 4. the overall average of weather in a place over a long period of time
- 5. when rocks or the ground are worn down by water or wind over time
- 6. the process of sediments (formed by weathering) being displaced
- 7. slowly moving mass, or river, of ice
- 9. drilled out pieces of ice that show the yearly accumulation of snow
- 10. day-to-day atmospheric conditions of a certain location
Down
- 1. soot/air pollution that accumulates on ice, causing it to melt
- 2. when an iceberg falls off a glacier into the sea
- 3. edges of ice sheet where the ice is melting and water is running out to sea
- 8. a primary gas in the atmosphere that comes from respiration and burning of fossil fuels