Across
- 3. This is where melting ice in the summer produces a large volume of meltwater. This water lubricates the glacier helping it to slide down the hill
- 5. When water finds its way into cracks and freezes overnight and expands by 9% and eventually rock breaks off
- 9. End of a glacier
- 10. Inputs to the glacier like snow and avalanches
- 11. A large body of ice over 50,000km² in extent
- 13. Largest glacier in France
- 14. Large body of ice extending downhill, normally occuping a valley
Down
- 1. Any material carried by a glacier. Can be on the ice, under the ice or in the ice
- 2. A process of erosion where rocks are plucked from the valley floor or sides as water freezes them to the glacier
- 4. The last ice age, and it began around 2 million years ago
- 5. The small particles of ice that form when the snow compresses
- 6. A process of erosion involving the wearing away of floors and sides in a sandpaper effect
- 7. Masses of snow, ice and rocks that move downhill at speeds of up to 300kph
- 8. The pushing of deposited sediment at the snout by the glaciers as it advances
- 12. Outputs from the glacier like melting and calving