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How do glaciers move for 6th grade?
A continental glacier can move in all directions and a valley glacier can move in a surge. :)
How slow does a glacier move?
5 per
What are the nouns in the sentence Pressure from the weight of the glacier causes it to move?
There are three nouns. They are pressure, weight, and glacier.
What does the glacier do with the object it move?
the glacier picks up the sediments, rocks, till, debris, and soil and carries them along while the glacier moves and will eventually drop them.
What is what makes a glacier move down a mountain?
Gravity
Did Antarctica move north as a glacier in the ice age?
Antarctica is a continent, not a glacier, and has only ever moved south.
How can glaciers erode rocks?
The glacier can carry rocks. The moving of the glacier.
Where does glacier ice move quickly and slowly within a glacier?
I think it moves quicker in the middle and slower around the sides.
How do glaciers flow?
glaciers move slowly but when theres alot of rain the water and the glaciers move faster
How slow can a glacier move?
Glaciers on average only move a few inches per day. Some don't move at all. The Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier in Greenland moves 20 to 30 meters a day, while the Byrd Glacier in Antarctica, the biggest in the world, moves 2 - 3 meters a day. Some may move more quickly if they are affected by seismic invents that may happen near its location.
How does glacier change the earths surface?
they keep ripping the bottom of the earth as they move
Is it true that due to the force of friction a glacier will start to move downhill once the layer of snow and ice is more than about 30 to 40 meters deep?
False. A glacier will move due to the force of gravity, not friction.
