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Flashcards by Riona Stevenson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Riona Stevenson
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Abrasion | Erosion caused when loose material in the load carried by a glacier wears away the land |
| Accumulate | To gather together or grow in a number or quantity |
| Arete | A steep mountain ridge separating 2 cirques |
| Boulder clay | A mixture of clay and rocks deposited by a glacier |
| Compact | To exert force on something to make it more dense; to compress |
| Cirque | A hollow in a mountain with 3 steep sides, formed by glacial erosion; also called a corrie, coom or coum |
| Crevasse | A deep crack in a surface |
| Drumlin | A low, oval mound or small hill, typically 1 of a group, consisting of compacted boulder clay shaped by past glacial erosion |
| Erratic | A rock or boulder that differs from the surrounding rock and is believed to have been brought from a distance by glacial erosion |
| Esker | A long ridge of glacial material deposited when a glacier melted |
| Fjord | A glacial valley that was drowned by the sea |
| Friction | The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another |
| Glaciation | The processes and landforms caused by the movement of glaciers |
| Glacier | A slow-moving mass or river of ice formed by accumulated and compacted snow on mountains or near the poles |
| Gravity | The force that pulls something downwards |
| Lateral | Side to side |
| Medial | In the middle |
| Moraine | Deposited material found in the lowlands of glacial valleys |
| Orbit | The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet or moon |
| Outwash plain | A broad, flat area of land created when glacial meltwater deposited its load of sand and gravel |
| Paternoster lakes | 2 or more ribbon lakes linked by a river in a U-shaped valley |
| Plucking | Glacial erosion when rock fragments are pulled out of a valley floor by moving ice |
| Pyramidal peak | A steep mountaintop created by 3 or more corries meeting around a peak |
| Tarn | A small mountain lake that forms in the hollow of a cirque |
| Terminal | At the end or extremity of something |
| Valley | A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it |
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