Ice masses that slowly advance down valleys that were originally occupied by streams.

Enormous ice masses that flow in all directions and cover everything but the highest land.

The material deposited directly by a glacier. It is deposited as the glacier melts and drops its load of rock debris.

When glaciers melt, they can leave layers or ridges of till.

A cone of debris left when a desert stream flows out of a canyon, loses speed, or quickly dumps its sediment.

The lifting and removal of loose particles such as clay and silt.

Windblown silt that blankets the landscape.

When wind deposits sand in mounds or ridges.

which type of moraine forms along each side of a glacier?

The location on a glacier that has a positive ice budget is known as ___________.

What are jagged snakelike ridges that form on mountains called?

The area where there is a net loss of ice due to melting is called the zone of _______________.

ALPINE GLACIERS erode mountainous regions, then melt.

What are the shapes of the valleys that remain behind after the ice melts?

Look at the picture. Which feature is A?

What is a very pointy and slender mountain peak?

This forms when two or more circque galciers or niche glaciers erode from different sides of mountain peak?

What is the bowl-shaped depressions that form near the summits of mountains?

They often contain the sources of glaciers. These are the zones of accumulation in alpine glacier systems?

_____ is the removal of large chunks of rock picked up by the glacier