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15 Cards in this Set
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World's largest of this category is found in northern Ellesmere Island, Canada
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Ice Cap
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Formed by the union of 2 or more valley glaciers in a board basin or plain
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Piedmont glacier
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Means "at the foot of the mountain"
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Piedmont glacier
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Smaller type of ice sheet
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Ice cap
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Found between mountains and in the highlands
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valley glacier
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Broad mass of ice that covers essentially all geographic features over an area
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ice sheet
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Resembles rivers of ice
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valley glacier
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the type of glacier covering more than four-fifths of Greenland
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continental glacier
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Large ice sheet covering most of a continent of large island
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continental glacier
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The uppermost 50M layer of a glacier consists of ______________
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brittle
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Most glaciers can normally move a few centimeters a
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day
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A __________ may be all that is left of a mountaintop if critiques completely encircle it.
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horn
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A _____________ is an inlet of the sea dug out by glacial action and boarded by steep cliffs
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fiord
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A glacier forms ___________ to relieve the stresses of motion
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crevasses
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Draw, label, and color glacier structure identifying:
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zone of fracture, snow line, zone of flow, wastage zone, and accumulation zone (these terms will be listed on the quiz for you)
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