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What is the term for the process by which a portion of a glacier breaks off and falls into the water?
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The answer is a term called, Glacial Calving
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What is the difference between an ice burg and glacier?
a glacier is huge ice mountain in the arctic ocean.An iceberg is a chunk of ice that falls off the glacier into the ocean.
A glacier forms in an area where more snow falls than?
A glacier forms under certain terrain conditions and where more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer.
What is it called when a small piece falls off the glacier?
It's called "calving"
Snowfall and its relation to glacier size?
Glaciers form where more snow falls than melts. So, it really depends where the glacier is. If the area snows like crazy a lot, the size of the glacier would be big. If it doesn't snow that much there, the glacier would probably melt much faster, and be less big.
Where is the Cave of the Winds located?
Behind the American portion of the Niagra falls
What breaks but never falls and falls but never breaks?
you
Solve this riddle whatever falls it breaks whatever breaks it falls?
The riddle goes like this-What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? Night falls
What falls but never breaks and what breaks but never falls?
Rain falls but never breaks; day breaks but never falls.
What falls but deosn't break and what breaks but doesn't fall?
night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never fall
What is the difference between an ice burg and glacier?
a glacier is huge ice mountain in the arctic ocean.An iceberg is a chunk of ice that falls off the glacier into the ocean.
A glacier forms in an area where more snow falls than?
A glacier forms under certain terrain conditions and where more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer.
The portion of a light ray that falls on a surface is a?
The portion of a light ray that falls on a surface is incident ray.
The portion of a light ray that falls on a surface is?
The portion of a light ray that falls on a surface is incident ray.
What falls but doesn't break and what breaks but doesn't fall?
Night falls but doesn't break, and day breaks but doesn't fall.
What forms glacial ice?
Snow falls in the mountains, and gradually compresses into ice (and preserves some of the old air in the process!). This ice then travels downvalley under gravity, and this part is the glacier.
What falls but never breaks what breaks but never fall?
nothing that's impossible
What is the distance between Glacier National Park and Idaho Falls?
435 miles
