Types Of Glaciers

Question 0

How big is a ice sheet

Answer 0

50000 km3<

Question 1

8 types of glaciers

Answer 1

Ice sheets 
I've caps 
Ice field
Valley glacier 
Corrie glacier 
Piedmont glacier
Niche glaciers 
Ice shelves

Question 2

Example of ice sheets?

Answer 2

Antartica and Greenland

Question 3

What shape is a ice cap?

Answer 3

Huge dome-shape

Question 4

Where do ice caps develop?

Answer 4

High plateaus

Question 5

What size are ice caps

Answer 5

<50000km3

Question 6

What is a ice field?

Answer 6

Where much of an upland region is covered by glacial ice, just the taller peaks exposed (nunataks)

Question 7

What is a valley glacier?

Answer 7

Larger masses of ice that flow from ice ice fields or corgis and usually follow preglacial river valleys

Question 8

What do valley glaciers form

Answer 8

Developing steep sides as they erode their course

Question 9

What are cirque glaciers?

Answer 9

Small ice masses on mountain slopes which gradually erode armchair shaped hollows.

Question 10

What happens if a cirque glacier gets to large?

Answer 10

They spill over the lip to feed a valley glacier

Question 11

What direction do cirque glaciers face?

Answer 11

N NE

Question 12

What size ares do Corrie glacier face?

Answer 12

0.5 to 10 km2

Question 13

What is a piedmont glacier

Answer 13

Large lobes of ice formed when glaciers spread out on reaching lowland areas and escaping the confines of the valley

Question 14

How thick is the Antarctic ice sheet

Answer 14

Attains thickness of 4000m

Question 15

What a ice shelve?

Answer 15

Extensions of ice sheets reaching out over the sea.

Question 16

How thick can an ice sheet be?

Answer 16

1000m

Question 17

Example of temperate glacier?

Answer 17

Atchabasca Canada

Question 18

Example of polar glacier?

Answer 18

Merserve glacier Antarctica

Question 19

Where are cold glaciers found? Example

Answer 19

Arctic and Antarctica

Question 20

Where are temperate glaciers found? Examples?

Answer 20

Alps and Rockies

Question 21

Where are cold glaciers found?

Answer 21

High latitude

Low relief

Question 22

What are temp in cold glacier?

Answer 22

Throughout below 0

Question 23

What are basal temps in cold glacier?

Answer 23

Below pmp, frozen to bed

Question 24

What happens in a cold glacier due to ice being frozen to bedrock?

Answer 24

Little ice movement Little erosion Little friction

Question 25

How much does a cold glacier move per day?

Answer 25

1-2cm

Question 26

What are the mechanism for movement in a cold glacier?

Answer 26

Internal deformation

Question 27

What is there limited in a cold glacier?

Answer 27

Ablation and accumulation

Question 28

Where are temperate glaciers found

Answer 28

High altitude

Question 29

What features are common in temperate glaciers

Answer 29

Fluvial glacial features

Question 30

What is the relief like in a temperate glacier

Answer 30

Steep

Question 31

What is the base temp in temperate glacier?

Answer 31

0 at or below pmp

Question 32

How much does temperate glacier Move per day?

Answer 32

2-3 m

Question 33

How much does a temperate glacier move per year?

Answer 33

20-200m

Question 34

Which type of glacier a more powerful erosive agent

Answer 34

Temperate

Question 35

How much does a cold glacier move per year?

Answer 35

3-4 m (Merserve glacier Antarctica)

Question 36

Movement in temperate glacier?

Answer 36

Basal slippage