Glaciers Crossword
Across
- 2. this happens when there is not much snowfall and there is more sunshine
- 7. glaciers erode Earth's materials they carve out the land beneath them to create
- 8. mixtures of clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders deposited directly by glacial ice
- 11. This can form when a piece of glacier falls off and melts it forms
- 12. circulating water through hydrosphere from earths surface to atmosphere and back
- 13. This happens when glaciers move really slowly picking up soil and rocks
- 14. glaciers get bigger over time so they
- 15. continuous body of glacial ice that berries the landscape
Down
- 1. Pulls down on glaciers upper layers causing them to slowly move
- 3. a continent on earth home to most of Earth's glaciers that only has a couple weeks of sun in winter
- 4. glaciers recede they form long narrow valleys
- 5. ice confined by surrounding mountain terrain, originating in high-altitude bowl-shaped
- 6. chunk of ice packed together from years and years
- 9. glaciers hold and store fresh water so this makes them
- 10. We are currently in one now because there are glaciers on Earth's surface
- 12. This causes glaciers to move very slowly and everything has it