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glaciers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| glacier | A large mass of moving ice and snow on land |
| iceberg | A huge block of floating ice broken from a glacier, found in the most northerly and southerly areas of the world's oceans |
| kettle lake | a lake that forms when a block of ice falls off of the glacial front, is buried by glacial drift, and then melts, forming a depression that fills with water. |
| glacial erratic | An ice-transported boulder that was not derived from the bedrock near its present site. |
| Drumlin | A long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow |
| outwash plain | a plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the terminus of a glacier. |
| glacial moraine | material moved from a glacier and left behind from the process of deposition |
| U-shaped valley | The shape of a valley formed by the erosion of a glacier |
| valley glacier | glaciers that form in valleys in high, mountainous areas |