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Can acidic water cause glaciers to melt?
Water can speed up the rate at which glaciers melt. Whether the water is acidic or not has no effect.
What does glaciers melt?
Global warming
Why glaciers take many years to melt in sunlight?
glaciers are big and vary cold.
What do glaciers do that rivers dont?
Melt. Move
What caused glaciers to begin to melt?
Global
When glaciers melt what landforms does it make?
Sea or
What will happen to glaciers if there is global warming?
they will melt
Can glaciers freeze in the winter and melt completely every summer?
I think that glaciers don't melt in the summer because glaciers form where it's cold like year long so it would be cold in the summer too. In cold weather ice doesn't melt.
What are large sheets of ice that do not melt called?
Large sheets of ice that do not melt are called glaciers. Glaciers are formed when snow accumulates over time and compacts into ice, flowing slowly due to gravity.
Do glaciers melt rocks?
No. Rocks need to reach very high temperatures in order to melt. Glaciers, being made of ice, are cold. Glaciers do, however, grind rocks down into smaller pieces quite easily.
Some volcanoes have glaciers on top which may melt causing what type of hazard?
The glaciers may melt and mix with volcanic ash, forming mudflows called lahars.
What can happen when glaciers melt a cirque?
Makes a lake i
