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Factors affecting glacial landscapes Flashcards

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Climate (precipitation)

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Snow (precipitation) packs and packs until it freezes-> makes glacier bigger -> glacier has more energy

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Aspect

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Aspect is the direction a slope faces.
South facing -> more sun and it will be warmer so more melting

North facing -> less sun so colder

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Erosion

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Wearing away at rock + other material by a force

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Meltwater

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Sediment gets dumped via Deposition.

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Word “geomorphological”

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Process that change the earth. E.g Weather, erosion + deposition

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