Melting Glaciers

Melting Glaciers By: Annie Powers and Heather Barigian What are glaciers? How do glaciers effect the environment. The good part of glaciers How we can reduce the water of glaciers. Where glaciers are located Types of glaciers

Glaciers are massive sheets of ice that function in a cold climate.

Glaciers can shrink or grow according to the climate.

There are many different types of glaciers.

What are glaciers?

Types Of Glaciers

retreating glaciers piedmont glaciers ice fields hanging glaciers tidewater glaciers surging glaciers rock glaciers mountain glaciers ice caps

Glacier Landforms

glacial grooves and striations

chatter marks

glacial trough

glacial erratic

moraines

arêtes, horns, and cirques

drumlins

GLACIER FEATURES

glacier terminus

ice caves

icefall

crevasses

ogives

Where are glaciers located?

Most of the worlds glaciers are located in Antarctica and Greenland.

But there are glaciers found on every continent, even Africa.

Antarctica has the most glaciers.

Why Glaciers Melt?

Glaciers melt because of the effects of global warming.

Glaciers also melt because, the heat of the sun.

How We can Reduce the Melting of Glaciers

We can stop the melting of glaciers by stopping the pollution of the air. This will stop the melting because, if we don’t make a hole in the ozone layer than the glaciers won’t melt. We can stop global warming.

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