Glacial Erosion Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- plucking : erosion that occurs during glaciation
- abrasion : cracks forming in the rocks by water and ice
- accumulation : ice forming by snow stacking.
- ablation : ice loosing mass by going downhill
- glacier : a mass of ice that moves
- mountainous : a steep slope on a mountain
- freeze thaw : rock erosion where ice forms
- scree : rubble caused by abrasion
- freezing : where water tuns in to ice by the temperature being 0 degrees or lower
- corrie : arches at the sides of mountains cause by glacial erosion
- tarn and trough : lakes in corries caused by glaciers melting
