NASA

Glacier Detectives Exercises
Teacher's Guide

Glacier Detectives 1

Answers:

  1. The terminus
  2. B
  3. A
  4. U-Shaped Valley
  5. C
  6. B
  7. A
  8. B
  9. A
  10. Some of the dangers could be:

    1st Picture
    People could slip and fall into a crevasse
    A rope could break
    The wall of the crevasse could give way
    Others...

    2nd Picture
    Ice and snow avalanches could threaten the village below
    The glacier could advance across the road and threaten the village
    Meltwater from the glacier could threaten the village with flooding
    Others...

  11. B, D, G

Answers: Circle Scramble Exercise

  1. CLRTAEGLBEAI: G L A C I E R T A B L E
  2. RIUECQ: C I R Q U E

Answers: Word Cross-Out Exercise

  1. ablation
  2. crevasse
  3. firn
  4. ice worms
  5. glacier flour
  6. serac
  7. folia
  8. Jokulhlaup

Important Term: Snowflake


Glacier Detectives 2

Answers:

  1. B
  2. A
  3. A
  4. B
  5. B
  6. C
  7. E
  8. C
  9. C
  10. B

Answers: Fill-in-the-Blanks Exercise

  1. F
  2. D
  3. I
  4. B
  5. G
  6. J
  7. H
  8. C
  9. A
  10. E

Answers : Find the Hidden Words Exercise

Horizontal Left-to-Right

                
                
  GLACIERFLOUR  
       ICEWORM  
                
                
                
                
 SURGE          
                
         MOULIN 
                
CREVASSE        
                

Horizontal Right-to-Left

    NIALPHSAWTUO
       ELTTEK   
                
                
                
        EVEN    
                
                
                
 KATANUN        
LLAFECI         
ENIAROMNRIF     
       EKALFWONS
EUQRIC GNIPOLLAG

Diagonal

                
F               
 O              
  L T           
   I         R  
  L A       E   
 L         I S  
          C U   
         A N    
        L I     
       G M      
        R       
       E        
      T         

Vertical Top-to-Bottom and Bottom-to-Top

                
     I        EJ
W    C        LO
O    EC       ZK
N    BAC      ZU
S    ERA      IL
     REL      SH
I    GSV      EL
C      I      CA
E      N      IU
       G       P