crossword on glaciers definitions

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Across
  1. 3. 8 A process of erosion involving the wearing away of the valley floor and sides.
  2. 7. 9,4 An eroded interlocking spur characterised by having a very steep cliff.
  3. 9. 8 A process of glacial erosion where rocks are puled out from the valley floor and sides as water freezes them to the glacier.
  4. 10. 9,4 A sharp edged mountain peak formed where 3 corries meet leaving behind the peak.
  5. 12. 7 A finger of ice which flows downhill occupying a valley from a ice cap.
  6. 15. 3,3 A smaller body of ice and is usually found in mountainous regions.
  7. 16. 7,6 A wide, steep sided valley eroded by a glacier.
  8. 17. 5 A knife edged ridge which forms between to corries.
  9. 18. 7 Sediment carried and deposited by ice. You can find a lateral, medial, ground and terminal type of these.
Down
  1. 1. 7,6 A tributary glacier trough perched up on the side of a main valley, they usually have a waterfall.
  2. 2. 5 The front of the glacier.
  3. 4. 4 A small mountain lake usually found in a corrie.
  4. 5. 6 A deep depression on a hill side with a steep back wall.
  5. 6. 7 An egg shaped hill found on the floor of a glacial trough.
  6. 8. 10,4 Slippage of ice along a curved surface.
  7. 11. 4,7 Shows the changes in height and shape along the length of the glacier, from its source in the mountains down to its snout.
  8. 13. 6,4 A long narrow lake in the bottom of a glacial trough.
  9. 14. 3,5 A large body of ice over 50,000km in size.