Chapter 19 - Glacial Systems & Landforms

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Across
  1. 5. a tongue of ice flowing from an ice sheet through a valley.
  2. 6. a steep-sided ravine or valley formed by glacial meltwater or lava flow.
  3. 10. a flat-topped deposit of sediment along a valley wall formed by meltwater.
  4. 11. a broad, flat area of glacial sediment deposited by meltwater in front of a glacier.
  5. 13. a mound of glacial sediment formed by meltwater deposition.
  6. 17. sediment deposited by meltwater from a glacier.
  7. 19. debris deposited at the front of a glacier.
  8. 20. a low pass or saddle between two glacial valleys.
  9. 21. related to sediments deposited in a lake formed by glacial meltwater.
  10. 22. a lake formed at the edge of a glacier.
  11. 24. a U-shaped valley carved by a glacier.
  12. 29. unsorted glacial sediment deposited directly by ice.
  13. 31. an accumulation of glacial debris formed by moving ice.
  14. 33. a deep, narrow coastal valley flooded by the sea, formed by glacial erosion.
  15. 34. a small mountain lake formed in a cirque left by a glacier.
  16. 35. a ridge of debris in the center of a glacier formed by merging lateral moraines.
  17. 38. debris deposited along the sides of a glacier.
  18. 39. a thick, floating platform of glacial ice attached to a landmass.
Down
  1. 1. an area near glaciers characterized by freeze-thaw processes and permafrost.
  2. 2. a bedrock hill smoothed on one side and plucked on the other by glacial movement.
  3. 3. a flat area eroded and smoothed by glacial movement.
  4. 4. a chain of small lakes connected by a stream in a glacial valley.
  5. 7. a long, winding ridge of sediment deposited by a stream flowing under a glacier.
  6. 8. the farthest end moraine marking the maximum advance of a glacier.
  7. 9. a smaller glacial valley that joins a deeper main valley, often with a waterfall.
  8. 12. the scraping and grinding of bedrock by debris carried in moving ice.
  9. 14. a water-filled kettle formed by melting ice blocks.
  10. 15. a large boulder transported and deposited by a glacier far from its source.
  11. 16. a ridge of debris left during a temporary halt in glacier retreat.
  12. 18. a large chunk of ice floating in the ocean, broken off from a glacier or ice shelf.
  13. 23. a sharp mountain peak formed by the erosion of multiple glaciers.
  14. 25. a sharp ridge between two glacial valleys or cirques.
  15. 26. an irregular blanket of till deposited beneath a glacier.
  16. 27. an elongated hill of glacial till shaped by moving ice.
  17. 28. sediment carried and deposited by meltwater streams.
  18. 30. all material deposited by glaciers or their meltwater.
  19. 32. a depression formed when a buried block of ice melts.
  20. 36. a flat or gently rolling landscape formed from ground moraine.
  21. 37. a long deposit of glacial outwash along a valley.