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The floating mass of ice is known as an ice burg, the process of breaking free from the main glacier is called calving.
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What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away called?
iceberg
What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away?
iceberg
What is it called when a small piece falls off the glacier?
It's called "calving"
What is the term for the process by which a portion of a glacier breaks off and falls into the water?
The answer is a term called, Glacial Calving
What is the term for a large block of ice that breaks off from a glacier or ice sheet and floats in the sea?
Iceberg would be a large piece of ice broken off from a glacier, bergy bit a smaller piece with only a one to four meters showing, and a growler would be less than one meter.
What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away called?
iceberg
What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away?
iceberg
A large piece of ice that breaks off an ice shelf and drift into the ocean?
glacier
What is it called when a small piece falls off the glacier?
It's called "calving"
What is the term for the process by which a portion of a glacier breaks off and falls into the water?
The answer is a term called, Glacial Calving
What is the term for a large block of ice that breaks off from a glacier or ice sheet and floats in the sea?
Iceberg would be a large piece of ice broken off from a glacier, bergy bit a smaller piece with only a one to four meters showing, and a growler would be less than one meter.
What do you call a piece of country rock that breaks off and becomes entrapped in a body of magma?
A piece of country rock that breaks off and becomes entrapped in a body of magma is called a xenolith.
What is more ancient a glacier or an iceberg?
A glacier is older than an iceberg, because an iceberg is a piece of ice that fell off a glacier.
What is the term for a large block of ice that breaks off from a glacier and floats in the sea?
Glacierette
What is it called when I have breaks off the glacier and becomes an iceberg?
New icebergs float on sea water and are broken away from the ice floe in a process called calving. The iceberg calvesoff the floe.
When a piece of sponge breaks off and grows into a new sponge what is this called?
This OS the process called budding. A new polyp will form from the part that broke off.
What is a large block of ice that breaks off from a glacier or ice sheet and floats in the sea?
an iceberg
