Glaciers
Across
- 6. Characteristic shape of a valley that has been shaped by a glacier
- 9. Ridge or mound of till deposited at the ends and sides of glaciers as they retreat
- 12. Huge boulder in the middle of nowhere that was clearly deposited by a glacier
- 13. The name of the ice sheet that covered most of Canada in the last ice age
- 14. The name of the last ice age
- 17. Area of a glacier where snow is removed by melting and sublimation
- 18. Crescent-shaped gouges chipped out of bedrock due to a rock or other object being dragged along
- 20. Hill of till that is shaped like half an egg
- 21. knob Rock outcrop reformed by a glacier - with one side that is smooth and the other jagged due to rocks being plucked out as the glacier moved forward
Down
- 1. Deep crack in the top, brittle ice of a glacier
- 2. Bottom end of a glacier
- 3. Line above which snow remains all year (aka line of equilibrium, firn line)
- 4. Series of glaciations and interglaciations (warm periods). Several of these have happened over Earth’s history.
- 5. Large mass of ice made up from compacted & re-crystallized snow that flows under its own weight on land.
- 7. Glaciers found at high altitudes
- 8. A winding deposit of sand and gravel from meltwater running through a glacier
- 10. Granular, compacted snow that has passed through one summer melt season
- 11. Glacier found at high latitudes that covers large areas (over 50,000 km2) and flows out in all directions
- 15. aka Continental glacier
- 16. Scrapes, scratches, and grooves formed in bedrock as glacier dragged rocks and other objects as it advanced
- 19. Unsorted debris of varying sizes deposited directly by the glacier (not water)