Geography Glaciers Flashcards
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types of Glaciers
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Valley Glaciers(found in mountains)
Ice sheets(huge glaciers covering land)
2
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Cirque(Corrie)
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A hollow in a mountain where a glacier forms
3
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types of Glacial erosion
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Plucking
Abrasion
4
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Arete
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A narrow ridge between two cirques
5
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U-shaped valley
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a deep valley with steep sides shaped U from a V-shaped valley
6
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Moraine
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Material deposited by a glacier along the side of glacier
7
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Drumlin
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A small oval-shaped hill of glacial deposits formed underneath the ice sheet or Glacier
8
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Esker
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Long ridge of sand and gravel left by melting Glaciers
9
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Plucking
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rocks or other material picked off under the glacier or ice sheet from ice melting from friction to freezing essentially freeze thaw action
10
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Abrasion
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Glaciers grinding material like rocks in between bedrock and the ice
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