Glaciers
Across
- 2. Knife-edged ridge between two corries
- 3. Water surrounding a glacier freezes onto nearby rocks and pulls them away with as it moves
- 4. The river that flows through a valley after the ice age
- 7. An armchair-shaped hollow in the side of a mountain
- 10. U shaped valley with steep sides and a flat bottom
- 12. The removal of snow or ice from a glacier by the act of melting
- 13. Lake at the bottom of a corrie
- 14. A piece of rock that differs from the rock in the place of which it lies
- 15. Moraine frozen into a glacier scours the valley base and sides
Down
- 1. A moving frozen river or mass of ice
- 3. Formed when three or more corries cut backwards into a mountain
- 5. A collection of rock fragments at the bottom of a hill or cliff
- 6. A half egg shaped mound caused by a glacier's deposits
- 8. Material carried by a glacier
- 9. The base of a glacier melts, allowing it to move down a valley
- 11. Valleys which are not eroded as deeply as the main valley in which it lies