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A glacier forms in a place where snow builds up year after year for a long time. The key thing is that the snow does not melt away in the summer. As the snow builds up over time, its own weight causes it to compress into ice. When the ice gets thick enough, it begins to flow under the influence of gravity. Glaciers can form only on relatively flat areas, or on slopes with less than 30 degrees of pitch in the mountains; too much steeper and the snow will avalanche instead of building up to a thickness that would form into ice.
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∙ 12y agoIn the process in making a snow ball natural forces compact snow to make a large mass of moving ice called a glacier
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What kind of glaciers form when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley?
'Alpine' glaciers form.
Is a glaciers a mager land form?
Glaciers are not major landforms because they aren't land. Glaciers do, however, create landforms
What are glaciers like?
Glaciers are big ice forms that form in really cold waters. They are like land except in ice form.
How are the glaciers of Antarctica different from valley glaciers?
They form a huge mass that covers the entire continent?
Did glaciers form the Lower Peninsula?
Yes
Do glaicers still form?
yes, but it takes over a hundred years for glaciers to form (its a very slow process)
Describe how a cirque form?
Valley glaciers melt and it make a U shaped profile (cirque) ~W
What can continental glaciers form?
Glaciers can form U shaped valleys.
What is the process of becoming covered by glaciers called?
The process of becoming covered by glaciers is called glaciation.
What process forms and valleys?
Glaciers, mostly Glaciers Melting
When can glaciers form?
Glaciers form when the rate of snow fall exceeds the rate of melting.
How do you describe weather conditions during which hailstones form and the process by which they form?
The hailstones are mas
Glaciers can only form when?
Glaciers form when the rate of snow fall exceeds the rate of melting.
What kind of glaciers form when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley?
'Alpine' glaciers form.
What is Long narrow glaciers that form between mountains?
Valley Glaciers!
The word used to describe the process when energy changes its form?
vibrator
Is a glaciers a land form?
NO
