ICE ON LAND

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GCSE Geography Fichas sobre ICE ON LAND, creado por Sophie Weldon el 17/05/2016.
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ICE ON LAND ALL ABOUT DASS ICE
ICE AGE Periods of the earths past when conditions whenconditions are much colder and and large amounts of ice cover the land.
What was the last major ice age called? It was 1.8 million years ago called 'Pleistocence'
ICE SHEETS Huge moving masses of ice thr cover hole containets
ICE CAPS Mini ice sheets
GLACIERS Moving masses of ice which fill valleys and hollows
Ingredients need to form a glacier: Time Snow Cold temperature Valley/hollow Young fold mountins/ high attitudes Steep gradients
What evidence that climates changed over the earths history Geological evidence- landforms in rocks Fossils- they adapted to cold climates Chemical- comerstions of ice changes as temp changes
How do glaciers move? Snow and ice thickens its then moves due to gravity and pressure of overlaying ice
Why are there cravasses in glaciers? As the glaciermoves it flows in different speeds. The friction with the sides and the base causes tention so cracks apere.
ACCUMALTION Imput of snow and ice into the upper part of the glacier called zone of accumaltion.
ABLATION Output of water from galcier as ice melts, this happens at lower part of gacier called zone of abaltion.
EQUIBRIUM LINE Accumation = ablation
GLACIAL BUDGET Difference between accumulation and ablation over a year
POSITIVE BUDGET Acumulation > abaltion. Glacier advances
NEGATIVE BUDGET Ablation > accumaltion. Glacier retreats
CORRIE Circular hollow in a mountin side with steep back wall and rock lipon open side.
TARN Small, deep, circluar lake
PYRAMIDAL PEAK Sharp mountain peak
ARETE Narrow knife edge ridge on top of a mountain
GLACIAL TROUGH Steep sided valley withflat floor in u-shaped formed when a glacier widens and deepens the valley
TRUNCATED SPUR Steep valley sides, valley glaciers removed the ends of interlocking spurs by ablation
HANGING VALLEY Tributary glacier left high above main glacier. Ice in main glacier melts quickly, leaving valley in the air
RIBBON LAKE Long narrow lake in the floor of a gacial valley
SCREE SLOPES Loose pieces of sharp rock lying at the floot of a rocky slope.
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