Cryosphere Definitions

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Across
  1. 2. Produced where the water produced by melting ice can collect on the surface of glaciers.
  2. 7. Rivers that have been fed from meltwater
  3. 9. A large piece of ice floating in the sea that broke off a glacier or an ice shelf.
Down
  1. 1. A floating mass of ice that is attached to ice on land, formed when glacial ice flows off the land onto the sea.
  2. 2. Ice covering an area under 50,000km, with the topography following the underlying shape of the land
  3. 3. A large body of dense ice moving over the land under its own weight.
  4. 4. Ice covering an area over 50,000km with its own topography
  5. 5. Thin ice that forms on the sea as the water freezes. Forms from sea water, but the ice crystallises as freshwater
  6. 6. The 3D shape of the land
  7. 8. Ice covering an area under 50,000km that is thick enough to have its own topography.