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The shape of a valley carved by a glacier is U shaped. A valley carved by a river is V shaped.

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What shape is left behind when a glacier erodes the land?

Ushape


Boulder left behind by a retreating glacier?

A boulder left behind by a retreating glacier is known as an erratic. A glacier is a moving river of ice and snow.


How do valley glaciers form?

A U-shaped valley begins as a V-shaped river valley. If the temperature is low enough, a glacier (river of ice) forms inside the valley. As the glacier slowly moves, it scours the valley floor when the temperature rises and the glaciers melts away, a U-shaped valley is left behind.


What is the soil and rocks left behind the glacier?

Moraine.


A large hole left behind by a glacier is called a(n)?

A hole in the ground left by a glacier is called a"kettle." Many of these form shallow lakes, as with the kettle lakes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. This could also be called a cirque which is defined as a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake. Cirque lake is a phrase used to describe these kinds of lakes.


The land left behind after a glacier passed through it would most likely become?

a U-shaped valley with steep sides and a flat bottom due to the erosion caused by the glacier. Once the glacier retreats, it will leave behind a variety of landforms such as moraines, drumlins, and kettle lakes.


How can you determine the direction that a glacier traveled?

ice chunks are left behind and theres valleys that the glacier created


What happens when the glacier melts in a cirque?

the glacier dropped small rocks as it melted. An erratic is a large boulder left behind after a glacier has melted


What can happen when the glacier melts in a cirque?

the glacier dropped small rocks as it melted. An erratic is a large boulder left behind after a glacier has melted


What can happen when a glacier melts in a cirque?

the glacier dropped small rocks as it melted. An erratic is a large boulder left behind after a glacier has melted


What happens when a glacier melts in a cirque?

the glacier dropped small rocks as it melted. An erratic is a large boulder left behind after a glacier has melted


What can happen the glacier melts in a cirque?

the glacier dropped small rocks as it melted. An erratic is a large boulder left behind after a glacier has melted