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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.
Is the Tasman glacier continental glacier or valley glacier?
i dont know like a valley
As glaciers move the rocks and boulders frozen in them work like?
sandpaper
Which glacier is formed like an armchair?
Cirques
What is a winding ridge left by melting glacier?
You may be referring to an "esker," a snake-like deposit of sediment left by a stream of running water underneath a glacier. At the edge of a glacier, a "moraine" also can form. A moraine is a pile of sediment and debris pushed by the glacier that forms alongside the glacier - a lateral moraine - or at the end of a glacier's run - a terminal moraine.
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.
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 rough is a giant pandas foot?
like sandpaper
How does a sandpaper feels?
Like a fresh baby's bottom
What kind of fish has a skin like sandpaper?
Shark.
Is sharks skin soft like humans skin?
No. A shark's skin is tough, and has a surface rather like sandpaper. In fact, the Native Americans used to use it for sandpaper.
