Glacier vocabulary
Across
- 2. A bowl-shaped depression that forms at the head of an alpine glacier
- 6. An elongated hill formed when a glacier moves over thick deposits of sediment
- 7. The elevation above which not all now snow melts during the summer
- 9. A pile or sheet of sediments formed directly by the melting of glacial ice
- 10. A very large,think mass of glacial ice that spreads out in all directions.Also called a continental glacial
- 13. The grinding and erosion of rock caused by the impact of rock particles carried by wind,water,or ice
- 14. A smaller glacier U-shaped valley that enters a larger U-shaped valley at a height above the floor of the larger valley
- 16. A depression formed on Earth's surface when large blocks of ice from a melting glacier are buried or surrounded by sediments. A body of water in a kettle is called a kettle lake or kettle pond
- 18. Scratches on bedrock formed by glacial abrasion
- 19. A long,narrow inlet of the sea formed by a now-melted glacier
Down
- 1. Glacial till that covers the ground surface like a blanket
- 2. A deep fracture in the surface of a glacier
- 3. A sharp ridge that separates glacial valleys
- 4. The deformation of glacial ice without breaking that allows the ice to deform as it moves downhill
- 5. The process by which rocks are lifted out of place at the bottom of a glacier and pulled up into the moving ice
- 8. A pyramid-like mountain formed when glaciers erode the peak from multiple directions
- 11. A lake in a cirque
- 12. The general words for sediments deposited directly by glaciers
- 15. A glacier that forms in mountainous areas where ice that accumulates higher elevations flows down through long narrow valleys
- 17. A large moving mass of ice on land.Glaciers form by accumulation and compaction of snow