Glaciers - Ice on the Move
Across
- 1. a large ridge of material formed from glacial movement pushing eroded material to the sides and front.
- 4. a mass of glacier ice that covers terrain and is greater than 50,000 km².
- 6. the trapping of heat in the atmosphere from greenhouse gases.
- 7. massive chunks of ice that break off of an ice shelf created when continental glaciers flow down towards the ocean.
- 10. small lakes formed from blocks of ice calving from glaciers and becoming submerged in sediment on the outwash plain.
- 11. marks or lines etched into the sides of valley rocks that can provide scientists with hints of the direction of glacial flow
Down
- 2. a sharp ridge from two or more glaciers eroding a mountain from both sides.
- 3. a large body of ice formed from the accumulation and compaction of snow that does not completely melt.
- 4. is a dome-shaped mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km² of land area.
- 5. an elongated hill formed from rocky debris deposited by glaciers. These hills show the direction the glacier moved in
- 8. cracks in the ice that can be hundreds of meters deep.
- 9. a ridge created from small river channels flowing beneath the glacier