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A slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
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Lot’s of erosion (destructive processes) and deposition (constructive processes) occur because glaciers create things called
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Glacier Vocab

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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
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