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What is a glacier? How do glaciers form?

What is a glacier? How do glaciers form?. Erosion by Glaciers _____________ and ____________ determines amount of erosion. erodes slightly more effectively than water. by plucking and abrasion polishing and striations (lines in the rocks surface). Continental glaciers remove

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What is a glacier? How do glaciers form?

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  1. What is a glacier? • How do glaciers form?

  2. Erosion by Glaciers • _____________and ____________ determines amount of erosion. • erodes slightly more effectively than water. • by plucking and abrasion • polishing and striations (lines in the rocks surface). • Continental glaciers remove • all ___________, ____________, • and _____________________. • Alpine glaciers change V-shaped • valleys to __________________.

  3. Transportation by Glaciers • will move material of _____________ • _________________ transport. • Water ________, ___________, and • ___________glaciers moves much • sediment as well.

  4. Deposition by Glaciers • Drift _______________________ • _____________________________ • Till ________________________ _____________________________ • Moraines ____________________ • ______________________________ • Glacial erratics _______________ ______________________________ • ______________________________

  5. In your notebook, think about your ice cream glaciers. What part of a glacier model represented the following parts of an actual glacier? Explain or draw a landscape example below: Outwash- Moraines End- Lateral- Till- Outwash-

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