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By their shear weigh,t glaciers grind and sculpt the land. As a glacier travels, it picks up large boulders and smaller debris and transports them down hill. When it rains, water flows into the cracks and crevases . The water then freezes causing the rocks to expand and break. Then the expansion and contraction causes major rock formations to splinter which enables those to be picked up and carried great distances down stream. When the glacier recedes, it leaves pools of water and piles of rock, dirt and sand. These make up new hills and valleys to replace the ones destroyed as the glacier was forming. It takes millions of years for the glacier to do this work. However a flood from a backed up glacier can complete it in just a few hours! Thanks to gravity, the soil is always moving from the highest places to the lowest places which are then inducted under tetonic plates. This process takes millions of years. Then hot spots in the eaths crust birth volcano's which in turn form new land buliding it up ever higher until the process starts all over again. We live on a planet that is alive.
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∙ 11y agoAs they move and melt the smooth out rough surfaces and piled up rock and dirt creating new valleys lakes and hills.
I got this from a text book ;)
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∙ 12y agoIt shapes it by eroding away rocks and soil
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∙ 11y agoi hate home work and gravity pulls the glacier down
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How did glaciers shape the land in Pennsylvania?
i think glaciers shapes the land by melting
How does weathering and erosion shape the land and objects?
E.g, glaciers can gorge out canyons
What land-form created by glaciers has a bowl like shape?
U-shaped valleys, mountains, and aretes.
What land form is created when glaciers erode backwards into the mountainside and form a shape like a bowl?
Answer: Cirques
How do glaciers make valleys?
The glaciers rubs against the land form which changes the land form into a U shape valley this works because the ice is so packed it pushes any land as in dirt sand and minerals out the way creating the valley
How did glaciers shape the land in Pennsylvania?
i think glaciers shapes the land by melting
How do glaciers form and how do they shape your land?
nothing
What is are huge sheets of ice that move and shape the land?
glaciers.
How does weathering and erosion shape the land and objects?
E.g, glaciers can gorge out canyons
What are 3 ways a glacier can change the shape of land?
Glaciers can pick up and drop boulders Glaciers dig furrows in the ground where they have passed Glaciers are able to move mountains out of their way
What land-form created by glaciers has a bowl like shape?
U-shaped valleys, mountains, and aretes.
What land form is created when glaciers erode backwards into the mountainside and form a shape like a bowl?
Answer: Cirques
How do glaciers make valleys?
The glaciers rubs against the land form which changes the land form into a U shape valley this works because the ice is so packed it pushes any land as in dirt sand and minerals out the way creating the valley
How do melting glaciers shape land?
When the glacier is formed the ice scratches the land. When the glacier recedes the ice will scar the earth. This is called glacial scarring.
Is a glaciers a mager land form?
Glaciers are not major landforms because they aren't land. Glaciers do, however, create landforms
What is the land scape in New York?
city
What land scape do Pandas live in?
rain forests
