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How are glaciers formed?
A glacier forms as layers of snow build up. The weight from the upper layers of snow pack down the lower layers until the lower layers become very hard and form ice.
When new snow is added to a glacier faster than ice and snow melt does the glacier get larger or smaller?
Smaller
How is glacier different from snow?
A glacier is made up of fallen snow, that over time, compresses together to form a solid chunk of ice. Glaciers are classified as such only after reaching 0.1 km2 in area and 50m thick. Snow is a form of precipitation in Earth's atmosphere in the form of crystalline water ice consisting of many snowflakes that fall from the sky. So snow is what forms a glacier over a large amount of time.
What are 3 landforms created by glacier?
a glacier is ice. ice forms a landform called a mouth of a river
What are the cracks in the ice that forms a glacier?
Crevasses.
Why does the snow the forms a glacier change to ice?
The snow changes the ice because in order to create the large mass of ice the temperature must freeze the huge clump of snow into a large mass of ice, thus creating the glacier, and so forth the glaciers would then be considered the large mass of ice that was meant to be formed.
Why does the snow that forms a glacier that change to ice?
The snow changes the ice because in order to create the large mass of ice the temperature must freeze the huge clump of snow into a large mass of ice, thus creating the glacier, and so forth the glaciers would then be considered the large mass of ice that was meant to be formed.
Why does the snow that forms glacier change to ice?
The snow changes the ice because in order to create the large mass of ice the temperature must freeze the huge clump of snow into a large mass of ice, thus creating the glacier, and so forth the glaciers would then be considered the large mass of ice that was meant to be formed.
What forms when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley?
valley glacier
What is glacier ice?
A glacier is something that forms when snow falls in a place where it never has the time to melt. Eventually it builds up thick enough to turn into a thick slab of ice, and that's a glacier. Cut a piece of it, and that's glacier ice.
Why is ice in a glacier considered to be a mineral but but what forms a glacier is not?
Ice forms a glacier and therefore it is considered a mineral.
What is a thick ice mass that forms over the land from the accumulation compaction and recrystallization of snow is a?
Glacier.
Why does snow that forms glaciers change to ice?
The snow changes the ice because in order to create the large mass of ice the temperature must freeze the huge clump of snow into a large mass of ice, thus creating the glacier, and so forth the glaciers would then be considered the large mass of ice that was meant to be formed.
Glacier formed long smooth hills?
What kind of glacier forms when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley
What is the difference between an ice berg and a glacier?
an ice berg is a chunk off off a glacier and a glacier is a big ice patch caused by snow
What is a large mass of snow and ice that moves slowly over land?
Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over ice is called a glacier.
What do you call fresh snow on a glacier?
ice
