Vocabulary from Each Section

What's a Glacier?

• glacier
• ice sheet
• ice cap
• cirque
• valley glacier
• tidewater glacier
• piedmont glacier
• hanging glacier
• warm (temperate) glacier
• cold glacier
• Antarctica
• Greenland
• Switzerland
• Highland ice field
• Synthetic Aperture Radar

Where Have Glaciers Been?

• U-shaped valleys
• V-shaped valleys
• erosion
• deposition
• horns
• kames
• drumlins
• aretes
• cirques
• fjords
• glaciated valleys

Glacier Anatomy

• accumulation zone
• ablation zone
• equilibrium line
• moraine
• tributary
• terminal moraine
• calving
• terminus
• meltwater
• moulin
• surge
• jokulhlaup

Strange Glacier Phenomena

• ice sizzles
• ice quakes
• moulins
• glacier fleas
• ice worms
• fossils
• Jokulhlaups
• algae
• pollen

What are Crevasses?

• crevasse
• bergschrund
• longitudinal
• marginal
• transverse
• radial
• terminus
• shear
• accumulation zone

Glacier Danger & Safety

• seracs
• snowbridges
• crampons
• crevasse
• stress
• ice axe
• crevasse probe

How do Glaciers Form?

• firn
• perennial
• firn line
• metamorphic
• compression
• snowflake
• gravity

How do Glaciers Move?

• accumulation zone
• debris
• watershed
• discharge
• ablation zone
• equilibrium line
• mass balance
• tributary
• moraine
• terminal
• lateral
• medial
• glacier bed
• basal slip
• deformation
• terminus
• calving
• meltwater
• crampons
• rope
• crevasse probe
• gravity

Calving

• calve
• iceberg
• boulders
• Cordova
• moraine debris

Why is Glacier Ice Blue?

• absorb
• reflect
• spectrum
• organic matter

Why Do Scientists Study Glaciers?

• glacial period
• interglacial
• Milankovitch cycles
• SAR
• ERS-1
• ASF
• glaciologist
• Bering Glacier
• Black Rapids Glacier