Glaciers and Cold Environments flashcards
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This page gathers over 40 community-made flashcard decks on Glaciers and Cold Environments, from glacier types and mass balance to glacial and periglacial landforms. School students, university students and professional candidates can practice key terms and processes, while teachers can find material spanning school and university levels. Choose a deck and start studying.
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30 cardsGEO 1111 - FINAL - Glaciers What are the types of glaciers?
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10 cardsGlacial Erosion Landforms
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6 cardsPeriglacial Landforms
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39 cardsgeo117 ice sheets Present Problem 1:
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157 cardsGeology Intro Final Exam What causes glaciers to form?
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65 cardsGlacial and Periglacial Environments What is permafrost?
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32 cardsPeriglacial processes and landforms What is a periglacial area?
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72 cardsGlaciers - Earth Processes and Landforms What is a Glacier?
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34 cardsGlacier mass balance
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24 cardsPeriglacial processes and landforms What is permafrost?
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31 cardsGlacier facts: What is a glacier
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32 cardsWarm and cold-based glaciers FORMATION OF GLACIER ICE
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42 cardsPermafrost (BIO 215T) what is permafrost
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17 cardsPW 3 What is the concept of the pressuren melting point?
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21 cardsPW 8 Where can glaciofluvial activity occur?
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19 cardsPW2
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29 cardsGlaciers Factors affecting the snow line?
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26 cardsMinnesota Ice sheet activity
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18 cardsPW4 How does ice move from accumulation to ablation?
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33 cardsIce on the land flash cards
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17 cardsTypes of glacier
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14 cardsPW 5 What are the three main processes that glaciation provides the landscape with?
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17 cardsCold Environments - Landforms
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15 cardsIce on the Land (Key terms) What is accumulation, ablation and the snout?
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15 cardsPW 9 What are the sediment supplies?
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19 cardsPingo and permafrost glossary
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23 cardsUntitled What was the most recent ice age called?
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20 cardsContinental Glaciation
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10 cardsPW 7 What are the main types of gravitational re-working?
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6 cardsStudy session 1.19 and 1.20: Ice on earth What is the cryosphere?
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7 cardsGlacier types (learn)
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6 cardsGlaciation What is an ice sheet?
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7 cardsMass Balance and Thermal Regime What is firn?
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43 cardsIce on the Land When did the Pleistocene (last ice age) begin?
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26 cardsGlaciation Abrasion, Accumulate, Arete, Boulder Clay, Cirque, Compact, Corrie, Crevasse, Drumlin, Erratic, Esker, Fjor...
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8 cardsEssay 1 part b ii) Glacier Dynamics What are the two most important glaciological effects of RAs?
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32 cardsHumanities Flashcards
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8 cardsWarm based (Temperate) glaciers How do warm based (Temperate) glaciers mainly move?
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41 cards2019 Dynamic Planet Study Set
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8 cardsUntitled What is the density (Gt/km3) and (kg/m3)of glacier ice?
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These decks let you work through terms and questions on glaciers and cold environments. Ice on the Land (Key terms) covers accumulation, ablation, abrasion and plucking. Continental Glaciation includes glacier movement, erosion and features such as moraines. Other decks focus on glacier types, mass balance and permafrost.
Choose a deck and study
Start with Ice on the Land (Key terms) if you want to practice the vocabulary used across the topic. For landform names, try Glacial Erosion Landforms or Periglacial Landforms. Work through the cards, then return to the terms or questions you find difficult.
If you want to see how ideas connect, switch to a mind map on the unit page. When you are ready to check your understanding in another format, try a unit quiz. Pick a deck that matches your current topic and work through it at your own pace.
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Which flashcard deck is a useful starting point?
Ice on the Land (Key terms) is a useful place to start if you want to practice vocabulary. It includes questions on accumulation, ablation, glacier budgets, abrasion and plucking. For a more focused session on named features, Glacial Erosion Landforms covers terms such as corrie, fjord and hanging valley.
Are these flashcards free to use?
Yes. Every deck listed here is free to open and study without an account. A free GoConqr account also lets you save quiz scores and make your own quizzes, mind maps, flashcards and notes. The listed resources were made by GoConqr users rather than by GoConqr.
Which learners are these decks for?
The decks span school and university levels. School students, university students and professional candidates can use them to practice topics such as glacier types, landforms and mass balance. Teachers can also browse the material for decks that match the terms and processes they want to cover.