Glaciers crossword

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Across
  1. 4. A weathering process where water freezes in cracks and expands, breaking rock apart.
  2. 8. The Welsh name for a corrie.
  3. 9. The circular movement of ice inside a corrie that helps grind out the base.
  4. 11. Scratches left behind on smooth rock surfaces by abrasion.
  5. 12. Hard granular pellets of compressed snow containing twenty to thirty percent air.
Down
  1. 1. A massive 'river of ice' that moves under its own weight.
  2. 2. A deep, armchair-shaped hollow found high up on a mountainside.
  3. 3. An erosion process where ice freezes onto rock and rips chunks out as it moves.
  4. 5. The first stage of corrie formation where snow collects in a hollow and compresses into ice.
  5. 6. An erosion process where rocks at the base scrape the ground like sandpaper.
  6. 7. The French name for a corrie.
  7. 10. A circular lake that forms in the bottom of a deepened corrie hollow after the ice melts.