Glaciers Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. A long steep ridge of material deposited by a melt-water stream flowing beneath a glacier.
  2. 4. A deep, usually vertical crack or split in a glacier.
  3. 6. A type of moraine which is created when two glacier's lateral moraines join together.
  4. 7. Another name for Valley glacier.
  5. 9. Flat to gently hilly area created by the deposition under a glacier.
  6. 10. The head of a glacier where most of the snow and ice is accumulated.
  7. 11. A large rock picked up and deposited by the glacier.
  8. 15. A large sheet of ice that covers a large part of the continent.
  9. 18. Eroded material deposited directly by the ice of a glacier.
  10. 19. firmly packed snow that has survived the summer melting season.
Down
  1. 1. A type of moraine which is created by the deposition at the sides of the glaciers
  2. 3. The area of a glacier where there is a greater overall gain in volume rather than a loss.
  3. 5. A ridge formed by the deposited till.
  4. 8. A type of moraine which is created at the front of a glacier consisting of piles of loose rock pushed there by the motion of the glacier.
  5. 12. A groove that was gouged out in the bedrock under a glacier by rocks frozen in the ice.
  6. 13. A long, slow-moving, wedge shaped glacier that moves within valley walls.They generally carve out the U-shape.
  7. 14. An egg-shaped hill caused by a glacier moving over previously deposited material and reshaping it.
  8. 16. A type of moraine which is created by the deposition of material from underneath the glacier.
  9. 17. The area of a glacier where there is greater overall lose in the volume rather than gain.