Glacial Landforms Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• glacier: a thick ice sheet that slowly flows under its own weight
• continentalglacier: vast sheets of glacial ice that cover immense areas of relatively flat land
• valley glacier: "rivers of ice" that flow down from mountainous regions
• cirque: bowl-shaped depression that forms in the upper portion of a mountain
• tarn: a small mountain lake that forms in a cirque
• paternosterlake: one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system
• arete: a sharp ridge that forms between two cirques
• horn: a sharp pointed caused by 3 or more cirques that carve from the same point
• fjord: a u-shaped valley that has filled with water
• striae: large grooves formed by the glacier pushing rocks along underneath
• till: huge quantity of boulders, rocks, and sediment carried along by a glacier and deposited
• moraine: a large mass of till deposited by a glacier