Glaciers

Aria, Anika, and Mason are studying about glaciers. What is a glacier?

• series of frozen lakes that line up parallel to one another 

• series of frozen seas that rest in the interior of continents 

• o  large body of ice that does not move across the earth's surface 

• large body of ice and snow that shows evidence of movement 

Glaciers form when _____.

• less snow falls than melts 
• more snow falls than melts 
• less rain falls than freezes 
• more rain falls than freezes 

What is a gigantic mass of moving ice?

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

Glaciers take over a 1000 years to form.

• True

• False

Giant Glaciers that covers huge areas are called....

• Ice sheets

• Sea Ice