10A - Glaciers/caves

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A cave is

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Rain has a tiny bit of ____ in it

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Acid allows to dissolve rocks like

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Hang from the roof of a cave

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Come up from the floor of a cave

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Water is the only force that can create caves

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Volcanoes can make long tunnel caves called

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Processes that make caves include

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Animals that never leave caves

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There less than ____ Texas cave salamanders in the world

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Living in darkness, Texas salamanders have lost

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As the salamanders have lost their eyesight

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Food is very _____ in caves

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This map shows the rock types found underground in a certain area. The map also shows where groundwater is flowing in and around these rocks.

If caves tend to form where moving water dissolves lime stone then caves would be expected to form in which region on the map?

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Glaciers are ______ structures that _____ like ______

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______ moist air from the pacific ______ up coastal mountains, where it ______ condenses and falls as ______ and rain.

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A cubic meter of snow weighs 70 – 150 kilograms, about as much as

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Most of the space (or volume) of snow is air

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After about two years ground snow takes on a new form called

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The final form of snow is

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Glaciers always have to move by melting

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The zone of plastic flow

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. Glaciers creep along because they are propelled by ______ like a giant gooey conveyor belt

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At the top of the glacier, in the upper 150 feet, it is known as the “zone of brittle flow” because…

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Glaciers are always melting

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It takes 200 years for new ice to be added to a lake.

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