GL01 Intro to Glaciated Landscapes

Question 1

What is a glaciated landscape?

Answer 1

• Glaciated landscapes include any landscapes that are being affected by the action of glaciers.
• This course also includes ‘post-glacial landscapes’ which do not have glaciers currently acting on them but still have distinctive features from their presence.

Question 2

What is a glacier?

Answer 2

Glaciers are often described as ‘rivers of ice’. They are huge bodies of ice and officially become glaciers (as opposed to blocks of ice) when they start flowing.

Question 3

Where do we find current glaciated landscapes?

Answer 3

Permanent glacier ice currently covers 10% of the Earth’s land surface, including places like Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Alaska, Canada, Russia, the Himalayas, the Andes, Antarctica, the Alps, the Rocky Mountains.