Glaciers, Deserts & Wind Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 3. Large portions of a glacier break off into the ocean.
- 8. Deposition of silt creating vertical cliffs with no layers.
- 9. Mud and water under a glacier reduce friction and cause it to move downhill along the ground.
- 10. A thick mass of ice originating on land.
- 11. When particles are lifted and removed from an area.
- 12. The movement of a glacier.
Down
- 1. When a glacier is gaining ice.
- 2. Sand hill that usually forms because of an obstruction.
- 4. When windblown sand cuts and polishes rock.
- 5. A period of time when much of the land is covered in ice.
- 6. Movement within the ice of a glacier because of pressure from above.
- 7. The most powerful agent of erosion on a desert.