Word Cross-Out Exercise

Complete the sentences below by filling in the missing words. Cross out the letters in the grid that are used to spell the terms. After all the letters from the terms are crossed out, unscramble the remaining letters to form an important term relating to glaciers.

1. When a glacier loses ice and snow by melting, evaporation, calving and erosion, it is said to be undergoing the process of _____________.
2. A _____________ is an open crack in the glacier surface.
3. Rounded, compact snow is called _______ if it's older than one year.
4. These little guys are the only animal of their kind that live in snow and ice. _____ _______ do best in temperatures just above freezing.
5. This isn't the kind you use to make bread; ____________ __________ is a fine powder of silt and clay made by a glacier when its rock-filled ice scrapes over bedrock.
6. A _________ is a tower of ice surrounded on all sides by crevasses.
7. An individual layer of ice crystals made during the process that changes snow to glacier ice is called a _______.
8. A funny-sounding word that means the release of lots of water trapped behind or underneath a glacier is __________________.

TERM:__________________________________________________________________