Grade 8 Fresh & Salt Water Systems Key Terms
Across
- 3. bowl-shaped basins eroded by valley glaciers
- 4. a large moving mass of compressed ice and snow
- 8. allowing no materials to pass through
- 10. material deposited by the meltwater from a glacier
- 11. allowing materials to pass through
- 13. the run-off from melting snow
- 15. an area that feeds two or more glaciers
- 18. a floating sheet of ice rarely more than 5 meters thick that breaks easily
- 20. large, fast flowing bodies of water
Down
- 1. a sharp mountain peak carved by glaciers
- 2. a deep fissure or crack in ice
- 5. the water that flow out of a watershed
- 6. the source of watershed
- 7. decayed or broken down
- 9. a large area of water surrounded by land
- 12. rainwater that flows off a land surface
- 14. area of land that drains into a body of water
- 16. small, fast flowing bodies of water
- 17. a landform made of a glacial till
- 19. unsorted material deposited by a glaciers