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Sand paper is essentially a sheet of strong paper with grains of hard material glued to it. This rough hard layer of material makes sand paper "abrasive". This means that it is able to wear down or away another material by being rubbed against it. This process is known as abrasion.
The base of a glacier typically carries lots of sediment varying in size from clay particles, all the way up to boulders. These act like the grains of material attached to the paper in sand paper. As the glacier moves they rub or scrape against the underlying soil and bedrock, wearing it away in a similar manner (but on a much larger scale) to the way sand paper can be used.
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Is silicon corrosive?
Silicon is not corrosive, in that it does not act like a strong alkali. It can be abrasive, however, if ground into small particles and made into sandpaper.
How does a glacier accomplish erosion?
The glacier is melting on the mountain and underneath it is like a river which eroding a side of the mountain when the glacier melts enough, it will slide down the mountain and into the lake that the river underneath the glacier had created. Hope this helps :)
How does a hanging valley look like before it was formed?
it looks like a glacier.
Is glacier canyon a real glacier?
yes glacier canyon is a real glacier
When a glacier is retreating does the upstream ice is still moving forward toward the downstream terminus of the glacier?
Yes, it is like a shrinking conveyor belt. If the conveyor belt stops moving, then it is no longer classified a glacier; it is then an ice field.
A glacier is like sandpaper because?
because it has a smooth out the landscape
What makes glaciers act like giant sandpaper?
The rocks and pebbles embedded in the ice. When these rocks and pebbles are on the bottom surface of the glacier they are dragged over the surface of the ground, cutting into it (whether it is soil or hard bedrock) cutting grooves in and polishing that surface. Much like the grit glued to sandpaper does to a surface it is rubbed against.
How do glaciers cause erosion.?
when glaciers form gravity starts pulling them and they slide over the ground and it pulls up the earth.
Is silicon corrosive?
Silicon is not corrosive, in that it does not act like a strong alkali. It can be abrasive, however, if ground into small particles and made into sandpaper.
Is the Tasman glacier continental glacier or valley glacier?
i dont know like a valley
What is in water and wind that acts like sandpaper?
Water and wind contain small particles of dirt and debris that can make them feel like sandpaper.
What does abrasive feels?
Rough, like sandpaper
What is a real tributary?
A tributary glacier is like a glacier to the side of the main glacier, oftem separated by a land form.
Does a liger's tongue feel like sandpaper?
like a lion or a tiger a LIGER'S tongue does feel like sandpaper. I mean i dont really know but people that breed them say they do.
How does a shark feel?
A shark feels like sandpaper.
How does a sandpaper feels?
Like a fresh baby's bottom
How rough is a giant pandas foot?
like sandpaper
