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How will melting glaciers affect the mountain streams and rivers downstream?
If mountain glaciers disappear there will be no source for many mountain streams, which will then dry up. Many rivers will be reduced in size as a result.
What are 2 ways glaciers helped shape the northeast?
As the glaciers receded with gravity pulling them downstream they created our valleys. Where I live in the Northeast part of the US we are in Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.
What do melting glaciers end up being?
Water
If a glacier moved down the mountain what would happen?
Glaciers or moving, shifting and melting constantly. The worst that could happen is if too meltwater was created by the melting glacier it would cause a flood downstream.
What happens when a glaciers rate of melting is greater than its rate of movement?
An ice front recedes when a glaciers rate of melting is greater than its rate of movement. It is the end of the glacier.
How glaciers and rivers affect rocks?
glaciers move them downhill and scratch the surface of the valley from a river 'v' to a glacial 'u' they also move lots of rocks. rivers move rocks downstream the higher upstream the more rough and sharp edged they are, downstream they are smoother and rounder due to erosion.
How will melting glaciers affect the mountain streams and rivers downstream?
If mountain glaciers disappear there will be no source for many mountain streams, which will then dry up. Many rivers will be reduced in size as a result.
What are 2 ways glaciers helped shape the northeast?
As the glaciers receded with gravity pulling them downstream they created our valleys. Where I live in the Northeast part of the US we are in Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.
What do melting glaciers end up being?
Water
What happened to the glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age?
At the end of the last glaciation most glaciers melted as the climate changed, except for those in the far north and in mountainous areas.
Why is the glacier melting a threat to water supplies?
The lower parts of glaciers melt and the water flows to fill the rivers downstream. If global warming causes the whole glacier to melt, then the rivers will lose their mountain supply and the lives of people downstream, who rely on water for living and agriculture will be threatened.
Is water that comes from glaciers drinkable?
Close to the glacier, it will be quite a milky grey colour due to the rock flour. And your system does not tolerate well this contaminant. A little further downstream, it will be drinkable.
If a glacier moved down the mountain what would happen?
Glaciers or moving, shifting and melting constantly. The worst that could happen is if too meltwater was created by the melting glacier it would cause a flood downstream.
What happens when a glaciers rate of melting is greater than its rate of movement?
An ice front recedes when a glaciers rate of melting is greater than its rate of movement. It is the end of the glacier.
Does refinery belongs to upstream or downstream?
Downstream
The downstream end or snout of a glacier advances over periods of time during which ablation exceeds accumulation?
False
What are the states through which indus flows?
solid (when it originates from the glaciers) and then liquid (all the way to the end)
