Glaciers vocabulary

Water from a melting glacier

• milky water

• freshwater

• meltwater

Scraping away material

• abrasion

• deposition

• erosion

A valley shaped like the letter V carved out by a river

• Ribbon valley

• V-shaped valley

• U-shaped valley

A sharp ridge, shaped by a glacier.

• arete

• corrie

• peak

A valley shaped like the letter U, carved out by a glacier.

• V-shaped valley

• Hanging valley

• U-shaped valley

A hollow where a glacier started.

• pyramidal peak

• corrie

• arete

A cold region where the ground is deeply frozen and only the surface thaws in summer.

• jungle

• forest

• tundra

To drop material

• erode

• deposit

• scrape

To carry things along.

• transport

• deposit

• pluck

A long smooth hill shaped like the back of a spoon, created by a glacier.

• landform

• striation

• drumlin