Chapter 12: Glacial & Periglacial Landscapes

Question 1

Glacier

Answer 1

Slow-moving rivers of ice: formed from continual automation of ice

Question 2

Alpine Glaciers

Answer 2

located in mountain environments

Question 3

Alpine Glacier: Valley Glacier

Answer 3

Form in mountain flow though a valley

Question 4

Alpine Glacier: Piedmont Glacier

Answer 4

The glacier was confined by valley walls until it entered the pied mont area and spread out.

Question 5

Alpine Glacier: Tidewater Glacier

Answer 5

Ends in a body of water

Question 6

Glacial Mass Balance

Answer 6

indication of whether the glacial is expanding or reteeing

Question 7

Accumulation Zone

Answer 7

Where snowfall and other misoter will fall and increase the size of the glacier

Question 8

Ablation Zone

Answer 8

there is a decrees in the size of the glacier thourge melting or sublamtion or calfing

Question 9

Equilibrium line

Answer 9

the line bwteen accumulstion zone and ablation zone

Question 10

Crevasses

Answer 10

virtical crackes that devolope in glacier

Question 11

Striation

Answer 11

a very long scract along a glacier

Question 12

Cirques

Answer 12

blow shaped features start of alpine glacier

Question 13

Arete

Answer 13

a very sharp or norrow ridge line

Question 14

Col

Answer 14

saddle like drpeersion

Question 15

Glacial Erratics

Answer 15

big rocks travported by galicers after the galicer retreeted.

Question 16

Tarn

Answer 16

Small lake formed in the cirque

Question 17

Rouche Moutonnee

Answer 17

an acmertrical hill that ws motifed by glacial acttivetiy