Contents

Introduction
Meet Your Guides, the Ice Worms
Technical Information and CD-ROM
Segment Contents
Segment Summary
Copyright Information

Legend of Miner Ed!

What's a Glacier
How Glaciers Begin
Definition of a Glacier
Types of Glaciers (by where they are)
Types of Glaciers (by temperature)
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Where Have Glaciers Been?
Clues
Glacier Landforms and Processes
Valley Shapes
World Detectives
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Glacier Anatomy and Other Diagrams
Anatomy of a Glacier
Types of Crevasses
Anatomy of a Surge
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Strange Glacial Phenomena
Glacier Voices
Glacier Life
Fossils
Glacier Force (Surges, Jokulhlaups)
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

What are Crevasses?
Pictures and Definition
Types of Crevasses
Crevasse Diagram
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Glacier Danger & Safety
Danger
Seracs
Snow Bridges and Crevasses
Ice Avalanches
Safety
Methods
Correct Travel
Special Equipment
Proper Clothing
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Glacier Detectives I
Legend I
Look Where Miner Ed Fell In
Interpreting Satellite Images
Measure Like a Scientist

How Do Glaciers Form?
Review: What's a Glacier
Firn and Neve
Process of Snow Becoming Glacier Ice
More Firn
When Glaciers Form
It's a Glacier
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

How Do Glaciers Move?
Glaciers are Solid Rivers
Glacier Advance and Retreat
Accumulation Zone
Ablation Zone
Equilibrium Line
Mass Balance
Ice Flow, Glacier Bed
Interferometry
Moraines
Terminus, Meltwater, Nunatak
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Calving
Calving and Cows
Icebergs
Glacier Bay, Alaska
The Titanic
Child's Glacier Wave Warning
Calving Video
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Why is Glacier Ice Blue?
Different than Regular Ice
Not Frozen Water!
Not Frozen Snow!
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Why Do Scientists Study Glaciers?
Geologic Processes
Climate
What's in the Atmosphere?
Global Warming versus Ice Ages
Past, Present, Future
Satellite Imagery Aids Scientists' Glacier Study
Black Rapids Glacier
Bering Glacier Surge
Bering Glacier SAR Sequence Video
Review Questions, Exercise, and Suggested Project

Glacier Detectives II
Legend 2
Science Student at the Glacier
How Fast is the Surge Front Wave Going?
Satellite Images of Bering Glacier

Alaskan Virtual Reality
Glacier are an Adventure!
See Dr. Chip's Amazing Glaciers of Alaska!
Climb Mt. McKinley with Dr. Chip!
Alaska SAR Mosaic
Fly by Alaskan Glaciers Soon
Muldrow Glacier on Mt. McKinley
Proposed Glacier Flybys

Legend 3
Let's Solve the Legend of Miner Ed!

Teacher's Guide
Teacher's Guide in Acrobat Reader
Lesson Plans by Dr. Chip
How Deep is This Glacier?
How Long Does it Take?
Make Your Own Glacier!
Links to Glacier Power HTML Resources
Vocabulary List
Vocabulary Exercises
Fill-in-the-Blanks
Find-the-Hidden-Words
Circle Scramble
Word Cross-Out
Links to Section Review, Exercises, & Projects
Links to Answer Keys

Glossary
References
Illustrations/Figures
Credits