Glaciers Crossword Puzzle

2. A long steep ridge of material deposited by a melt-water stream flowing beneath a glacier.
4. A deep, usually vertical crack or split in a glacier.
6. A type of moraine which is created when two glacier's lateral moraines join together.
7. Another name for Valley glacier.
9. Flat to gently hilly area created by the deposition under a glacier.
10. The head of a glacier where most of the snow and ice is accumulated.
11. A large rock picked up and deposited by the glacier.
15. A large sheet of ice that covers a large part of the continent.
18. Eroded material deposited directly by the ice of a glacier.
19. firmly packed snow that has survived the summer melting season.

1. A type of moraine which is created by the deposition at the sides of the glaciers
3. The area of a glacier where there is a greater overall gain in volume rather than a loss.
5. A ridge formed by the deposited till.
8. A type of moraine which is created at the front of a glacier consisting of piles of loose rock pushed there by the motion of the glacier.
12. A groove that was gouged out in the bedrock under a glacier by rocks frozen in the ice.
13. A long, slow-moving, wedge shaped glacier that moves within valley walls.They generally carve out the U-shape.
14. An egg-shaped hill caused by a glacier moving over previously deposited material and reshaping it.
16. A type of moraine which is created by the deposition of material from underneath the glacier.
17. The area of a glacier where there is greater overall lose in the volume rather than gain.