Glaciers

Question 1

Ablation zone

Answer 1

Lower altitude area of glacier or ice sheet where there is a net loss

Question 2

Accumulation zone

Answer 2

Where snow accumulates and is converted to ice such as cirque

Question 3

Block stream

Answer 3

Boulder/rocks accumulate downslope in periglacial conditions

Question 4

Cirque

Answer 4

Concavity in which snow and ice accumulate to develop a small glacier that feeds a larger glacier in below valley

Question 5

Firn

Answer 5

Partially consolidated snow that has passed through one summer melt season but is not yet glacial ice

Question 6

Glacial through

Answer 6

Valley area that becomes over deepened

Question 7

Glaciofluvial

Answer 7

Melted glacial water flowing out of glacier base carrying sediment into outwash areas

Question 8

Ice cap

Answer 8

Large body of ice that rests on the landsape. Surface topography is not related to the shape of the underlying landmass

Question 9

Ice sheet

Answer 9

Large body of ice that rests on landscape (continental scale)

Question 10

Meltwater channel

Answer 10

Water moving through and under the ice, carrying sediment beyond the ice nose

Question 11

Moraine

Answer 11

Shaped landform of glacial deposits

Question 12

Outwash

Answer 12

Sediment deposits from water outflowing from ice

Question 13

Roches moutonees

Answer 13

More resistant bedrock outflowing from ice

Question 14

Till

Answer 14

Sediment deposit left from glacial melting, can form moraines if shaped