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Glaciers Flashcards

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What is the snow line?

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The snow line is the lower edge of the snowfield that divides the snow covered area and the melted snow area

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How does the snowing change with elevation and latitude?

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The higher the latitude the lower the elevation

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What is the zone of accumulation and how is it related to the snow line

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The Zone of accumulation is the part of a glacier above the snow line, where the snow accumulates to increase the glaciers mass

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What is the zone of wastage?

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the place below the snow line where the glacier ice melts evaporator or flows away

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What is a glacier?

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A glacier is a thick slab of densely packed ice that does not melt completely away during the summer 

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What is an ice cap??

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An ice cap is a smaller ice sheet that is usually 160 km and is usually located in Northern Canada 

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What is a continental glacier?

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A continental glacier is a thick ice sheet that covers most of continent or a large island 

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Where are the two continental glaciers found?

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The two continental glaciers are found in Greenland and Antarctica

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What are ice sheets?

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permanent layers of ice covering an extensive tract of land

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What is an alpine glacier?

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Alpine glacier is a long, narrow river of ice located in a high valley 

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What is plucking?

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Plucking is the process of a glacier freezing and attaching to rocks below it and plucking them out

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What are erratics

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Erratics are boulders that have been moved and sit on on different bedrock by the process of plucking

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What is a boulder train?

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A boulder train is a group of a erratics from the same distant, bedrock source that can follow back to it

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What is calving?

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Calving is the process by which large chunks of ice break off

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What is a cirque

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A cirque is a basin that forms as a result of glacial erosion at the head of a U-shaped valley that can be found in Norway or Alaska

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What is a drumlin?

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A drumlin is a long, streamline hill composing of Till

17
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What is an esker

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And esker is a long winding ridge that is deposited by streams flowing a glacier 

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What is a fjord?

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A fiord is a place where the sea enter the glaciate Valley, due to the glaciers, eroding their path to see level when they start retreating, the sea enters the glaciated Valley 

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What is a hanging valleys?

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A hanging valley is a small valley that often enters a glaciated valley from high on its side that has a waterfall. 

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What is a horn?

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A horn is a slender spire of three or more cirques that encircle a mountain peak

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What is a kettle?

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A kettle is a hole that outwash plain are pitted with a kettle lake has water

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 What is a lateral moraine?

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A lateral moraine is debris deposited along the sides of a glacier 

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What is till

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Till is the unstratified kind of deposit in which boulders, pebbles and soil drop down randomly 

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What is a medial morain

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A medial moraine is the lateral moraines of two valley glaciers, emerging that join 

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What is an terminal moraine?

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A terminal membrane is a pile of debris that the glacier push in front of it until it stopped advancing

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What is an outwash plain?

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And outwash plain is produced by sand moraine and gravel that melt water along the front of a glacier carries 

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What is a piedmont glacier

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A piedmont glacier is several glaciers that form on flat ground creating a bulb

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What is a tarn

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A tarn is a Lakeside that a cirque often holds after the glacier treats 

29
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Was the ice age after or before the flood

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It was after the flood because of all the glacial evidence

30
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Relate the snap, freezing them animals to a possible

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Mammoth died as a result of it being super cold or were smashed

31
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What is some people said just the Ice Age started?

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Some people suggest that the changes of the earth from the global flood started the Ice Age 

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What were some of the animals that are alive during the Ice Age?

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Mammoths sabertooth cats, giant ground sloth, Irish elk woolly rhino

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