What is a glacier?
a large mountain
a huge river with flowing ice and snow
an island covered with snow
Where are most glaciers found?
North America
Asia
Antarctica
Europe
A glacier has 3 parts, what are they?
Ice, ice, and more ice
water, slush, ice
snow, ice, snow
snow, mix of snow and ice, solid ice
Which best describes the process for how a glacier is formed?
Snow falls from the sky and freezes
Snow falls over and over again freezing what is underneath it. This causes the layers to get deeper. Once it becomes heavy, it begins to slide downhill and spread out.
Rain must fall 3 days in a row and then the temperatures drop below freezing. This causes the rain to freeze and turn into ice.
Which of these is NOT an effect of glaciers on Earth?
Glaciers make the water levels rise which causes floods in many areas.
Glaciers grind away at the Earth.
Glaciers push rocks to the side which creates hills.
Glaciers help carve valleys where lakes then form.