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E. Choose five of the following terms and give a brief definition of each. (2 points each, 10 total)

a) Mountains were formed by the movement of the Earth’s crust. b) The Ice Age left glaciers in most of northern Canada and America. (1) Lakes formed from melted glaciers. (2) Basins were also formed. B. People the Americas 1.

A glacier is a large mass of ice that flows very slowly. A glacier forms by the compression and/or crystallization of snow that has stayed in one place year round. Glaciers can be constructive and/or destructive. Glaciers can be constructive by leaving sediments behind, or destructive by gauging the earth's surface. Glaciers were once present in Minnesota, thousands of years ago, and as they retreated, they left behind large amounts of glacial meltwater and various landforms, still present today.

A glacier is a large body of ice that moves slowly across land and are formed by there being a higher snow gain rather than a snow melt. Glaciers move by a small amount of ice melting and the glacier sliding. Glaciers can help and destroy the landscape in front of them but they can also shape the land into something amazing. Glaciers were once present in Minnesota thousands of years ago and played a massive role on the landscape we live on today, and as they melted they left behind large amounts of water and formations.

Chasing Ice is a modern documentary about the human impact on the Earth’s glaciers. Following James Balog and his team the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the group aims to provide visible evidence of human impact on the Earth’s glaciers, as they trek through harsh conditions in Alaska, Greenland, and Iceland.

A glacier occurs when the climate of an area is so cold that new snow does not completely melt each summer and more snow is added in the winter. After many winters the accumulation of this snow becomes compact and re-crystallizes, thus forming a glacier. Currently, glaciers cover about ten percent of the Earth's surface. Yet, in the past, glaciers covered much more land and were thousands of meters thick. (Tierney)

Many locations around the world in places where its snows throughout the year temperature stays cold and frosty. This will cause snow not to melt but sometimes creates a firn. When the snow gets suppressed deeper in the snowpack it can turn in to a glacier ice. “Glacier is massive, long-lasting, moving mass of ice compacted snow and ice” (Thompson, 2007). These gigantic moving mass can only be made on land where the quantity of snow is more abundant than the snow that had previously melted in the summer. Glaciers are influenced by geologic forces, temperature changes, and snowfall (RioLearn, 2016). There are two types of glaciers the first type is an alpine glacier and the

What is a glacier, a massive body of water that moves. Glaciers made mountains and plains, then they melted and made the Great Lakes. Glaciers were once presented in Minnesota thousands of years ago. Glaciers were once the present in Minnesota thousands of years ago, and as they retreated they left behind large amounts of glacial meltwater and various land forms still present today.

Glaciers are large bodies of ice that are constantly moving. They cover 10% of the Earth's surface and are stretched across 40 different countries, among which are Greenland, Canada, Iceland, US etc.

Glaciers are made up of fallen snow, that over many years compresses, into large, thickened ice masses. Glaciers begin to form when snow remains in the same area year round where enough snow accumulates to transform into ice. The sheer weight of a thick layer of ice, or the ice’s mass, causes glaciers to flow very slowly. Movement along the underside of a glacier is slower than movement at the top due to the friction created as it slides along the grounds surface, and in some cases where the base of the glacier is very cold, the movement at the bottom can be a tiny fraction of the speed of flow at the surface.

Glaciers are a huge patch of ice. When snow stays in the same place for a really long time, enough snow will accumulate and turn into ice. Gravity helps move this huge pack of ice because the ice slowly flows over land. Continental glaciers can be found in Antarctica and Greenland. Glaciers were once present in Minnesota thousands of years ago, and as they retreated they left behind large amounts of glacial meltwater and various landforms still present today.

Glaciers is familiar to most people, thinking as a big rigid piece of ice. However, under pressure, glaciers act like a soft plastic. They can bend and flow downhill like slow-motion river of ice. However, ice caps, ice sheets and really any masses of ice which remain year round are also considered glaciers. For typical glacier, snowfall builds up on its surface. Overtime, all the layers of snow press down on the layers beneath compacting the snow crystals into ice. This ice form the main body of the glaciers. Glaciers gain ice from snowfall. They lose ice through surface melting, melting from beneath and in some cases, by gradually flowing into lakes or oceans and breaking off into icebergs. In winter, new snow weighs down of the glacier pushing

Glaciers are essentially frozen rivers. They are common in the Northern Hemisphere as well as at high altitude.

A glacier is a body of dense ice that is formed in areas where the amount of snowfall exceeds the amount of snow melted per year such as: Greenland, Antarctica and Russia. It forms when snow accumulates in one specific area over many years, possibly centuries. The snow slowly forms into ice and each year the layer of ice increases depending on the temperature. When the glacier becomes large and heavy enough the pressure from the weight of the glacier often deforms the glacier, Which usually causes the glacier to get new feature such crevasses and seracs. Most glaciers

A glacier is a slowly moving mass of ice formed over years by the buildup and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles. Most of the world's glaciers are found near the poles (because the very cold and snowy conditions found there) but glaciers actually exist on all the continents including africa! The perfect conditions to form glaciers are mostly found in regions with high snowfall in winter and cool temperatures in summer. These conditions allow snow to build up in winter and not melt in summer these conditions usually occur in polar regions and high alpine regions. Global warming is the gradual increase of the earth's atmosphere from carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately the spreading disbelief of global