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Glacier Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles. | Glacier |
| Lot’s of erosion (destructive processes) and deposition (constructive processes) occur because glaciers create things called | Fluvioglacial features |
| Slabs of solid bedrock that have been lifted and moved by glacier ice (as the glacier melts/moves) | Erratic |
| Depression/hole in ground formed by the melting of a block of detached glacier ice buried or partially buried by drift which forms a small body of water | Kettle |
| Areas/beds of sand and gravel laid down by meltwater from glaciers (literally looks like a glacier threw up) | Outwash |
| A long winding ridge of gravel and other sediment left by a glacier; deposited by the meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | Esker |
| Landform made largely of till (small rocks and sediment deposited by a glacier) from when glacier recedes/slides back… it leaves carved out land left by glacier | Moraine |
| The breakdown of rocks/objects due to weather conditions such as: ice, wind, or water. | Weathering |
| When water flow or wind remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's crust, moving it | Erosion |
| When sediments (soil and rocks) are added to a landform or land mass | Deposition |