Ice Age Crossword

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  1. 2. bowl-like depression formed when mountains and valley walls are carved by glaciers at high elevations
  2. 5. different rock types transported by ice and deposited somewhere else
  3. 6. we have been in this interglacial period since 11 700 years ago when the last glacial period ended
  4. 8. times where Earth is not covered with large ice sheets that occur between glacial periods
  5. 9. a period in geological history with colder temperatures.
  6. 10. rocks transported by glaciers that are of the same type of rock
Down
  1. 1. what people generally know as an ice age;when the earth is covered largely with glaciers and ice sheets
  2. 3. formed when glaciers slope downwards and flow through previously formed V-shaped valleys made by rivers; the glacier widens the floor and steepens the floor of the valley
  3. 4. an extended period time characterized by a significant development
  4. 7. the most recent time during the last glacial period that the ice sheets were at their greatest; the time where they covered the most of the earth and were the thickest.