On your own paper, answer the following in complete sentences using the link: Click through the links on the right to answer the following questions: What are the 3 main criteria for being a glacier? What conditions are required for glacier formation? Describe a valley glacier. Also pick one other glacier and describe that one. Describe how a glacier forms. Describe the 6 parts of a glacier. How do glaciers travel? Click on ICE AGES to answer the following: What geological features are evidence of past ice ages? What is an Ice Age? What is a little ice age and when did it occur? Name and describe 3 catalysts for ice ages. (Hint: look up what catalyst means) Click on ARCHITECTS to answer the following: How are glaciers “nature’s architects”? Describe the following features and how a glacier creates them: cirque, arête, horn, fjord, hanging valley, u-shaped valley. Describe how a glacier transports and deposits rock. Click on MONITORING to answer the following: Why do scientists monitor glaciers? How can scientists see evidence of Earth’s atmospheric past in glaciers? Where are glaciers found in our national parks? AND FINALLY…. Refer to question 12. Make a poster using plain paper that illustrates each of the glacier features. Make sure you include a short description of each and a picture of each. You may use the colored pencils at the front. Please be sure to staple all your work together and turn it in at the end of the block. Block 7, keep until next block, turn in Tuesday.
On your own paper, answer the following in complete sentences using the link: Click through the links on the right to answer the following questions: What are the 3 main criteria for being a glacier? What conditions are required for glacier formation? Describe a valley glacier. Also pick one other glacier and describe that one. Describe how a glacier forms. Describe the 6 parts of a glacier. How do glaciers travel? Click on ICE AGES to answer the following: What geological features are evidence of past ice ages? What is an Ice Age? What is a little ice age and when did it occur? Name and describe 3 catalysts for ice ages. (Hint: look up what catalyst means) Click on ARCHITECTS to answer the following: How are glaciers “nature’s architects”? Describe the following features and how a glacier creates them: cirque, arête, horn, fjord, hanging valley, u-shaped valley. Describe how a glacier transports and deposits rock. Click on MONITORING to answer the following: Why do scientists monitor glaciers? How can scientists see evidence of Earth’s atmospheric past in glaciers? Where are glaciers found in our national parks? AND FINALLY…. Refer to question 12. Make a poster using plain paper that illustrates each of the glacier features. Make sure you include a short description of each and a picture of each. You may use the colored pencils at the front. Please be sure to staple all your work together and turn it in at the end of the block. Block 7, keep until next block, turn in Tuesday.
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