Chapter 3 paragraph 3: Rivers of ice

• Middelbare school

At the end of this lesson

you can explain how glaciers influence landscape formation

Glacier

Old snow on top of the mountain (firn) -> pushed together, forms a firn base -> goes down the mountain because of gravity -> glacier or ice river

Glacier

• Glacier forms an U-valley
• When the ice is melted and there is water streaming into the U-valley, it becomes a fjord
  

To work

• Check assignments paragraph 1 and 2
• Read paragraph 3
• Make assignments
  

How does a glacier influence landscape formation