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Why are some regions of northern Canada do not form continental glaciers even when the summer and winter temperature are cool enough?
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What the 2 most common kinds of glaciers?
There are 2 main types of glaciers, Continental is one, they float away from central regions. The second is alpine or valley which are the glaciers that flow down the valley from the mountain.
How are continental glacier and valley glaciers similar?
Continental and valley glaciers both develop in regions where there is constant snowfall and freezing temperatures throughout the year. Both types of glaciers move at a very slow pace.
How do you tell if a place is continental or maritime using the temperature range?
Maritime regions tend to have much milder temperature ranges where continental regions have extreme variation.
What is the difference between maritime and continental air masses?
the continental air is found in high temperature regions. the maritime air is found in low temperature regions.
What is one main difference between continental glaciers and valley glaciers?
Valley glaciers travel down between the mountain ridges; these glaciers carry rock debris with them as they move. Continental glaciers are giant ice masses that cover hundreds of miles. They flow out onto the sea, where they form floating ice shelves. Continental glaciers smooth the landscape by scraping and eroding features that existed before the ice appeared. Alpine glaciers carve out rugged features in the mountain rocks through which they flow and are also are very different in elevation.
What glaciers are now located only on polar regions?
Ice glaciers, what else?
How did glaciers change the land of the Northeast regions?
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Where are alpine glaciers found?
they are found on mountain valleys and polar regions
Where is the fresh water stored on the Earth?
Glaciers. Glaciers are the enormous reservoirs of frozen water on the hat of the planet. on the top. Northern regions of the world. all the fresh water springs down from those regions to the south of the planet. lakes, rivers, mountains, valleys carry the water through out the lands. This is the reason why water has always been a problem in Africa. the region is cut off from the main flow of water and there are no rivers to provide. even in the southern regions like South Asia, South Africa mountains have huge glaciers that melt periodically and provide fresh water.
What are the season like in a boreal forest?
Boreal forests are forests in the northern regions of the northern hemisphere but south of the arctic regions.
What 3 continental regions are contained in Ecuador?
Ecuador is divided into three continental regions--the Costa, Sierra, and Oriente--and one insular region--the Galápagos Islands. The continental regions extend the length of the country from north to south and are separated by the Andes Mountains.
What is a characteristic for continental air masses?
Continental Polar cP air mass is an air mass formed over land in a cold region with cold dry airMaritime tropical mT air mass is an air mass that forms over water in a warm region with warm wet air
