Glacier vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A bowl-shaped depression that forms at the head of an alpine glacier
  2. 6. An elongated hill formed when a glacier moves over thick deposits of sediment
  3. 7. The elevation above which not all now snow melts during the summer
  4. 9. A pile or sheet of sediments formed directly by the melting of glacial ice
  5. 10. A very large,think mass of glacial ice that spreads out in all directions.Also called a continental glacial
  6. 13. The grinding and erosion of rock caused by the impact of rock particles carried by wind,water,or ice
  7. 14. A smaller glacier U-shaped valley that enters a larger U-shaped valley at a height above the floor of the larger valley
  8. 16. A depression formed on Earth's surface when large blocks of ice from a melting glacier are buried or surrounded by sediments. A body of water in a kettle is called a kettle lake or kettle pond
  9. 18. Scratches on bedrock formed by glacial abrasion
  10. 19. A long,narrow inlet of the sea formed by a now-melted glacier
Down
  1. 1. Glacial till that covers the ground surface like a blanket
  2. 2. A deep fracture in the surface of a glacier
  3. 3. A sharp ridge that separates glacial valleys
  4. 4. The deformation of glacial ice without breaking that allows the ice to deform as it moves downhill
  5. 5. The process by which rocks are lifted out of place at the bottom of a glacier and pulled up into the moving ice
  6. 8. A pyramid-like mountain formed when glaciers erode the peak from multiple directions
  7. 11. A lake in a cirque
  8. 12. The general words for sediments deposited directly by glaciers
  9. 15. A glacier that forms in mountainous areas where ice that accumulates higher elevations flows down through long narrow valleys
  10. 17. A large moving mass of ice on land.Glaciers form by accumulation and compaction of snow