Glaciers Word Search
Glaciers, as a word search. 12 words drawn from the terms and ideas of a school subject sit hidden in a 15×15 letter grid, running in every direction. Drag across a word to claim it, and clear the board to finish.
Words to find: GLACIER, SNOW, CREVASSE, MORAINE, BERG, FIRN, ARETE, CIRQUE, TUNDRA, FROZEN, ERRATIC, ABLATION.
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Glaciers word list, defined
- GLACIER /ˈɡleɪʃə(r)/ · noun
- A glacier is a large, long-lasting mass of ice that moves slowly over land under the influence of gravity. Glaciers commonly occupy valleys, high mountain ranges, and polar icefields. Related: ice river, ice mass, ice sheet, ice stream.
- SNOW /snoʊ/ · noun, verb
- Snow is atmospheric water frozen into ice crystals that falls to the ground as flakes or accumulates as a white covering. As a verb, snow means to fall as snow or to cover or obscure something with snow. Related: snowfall, snowflake, snowstorm, flurry.
- CREVASSE /krəˈvæs/ · noun
- A deep, open crack or fissure, especially in a glacier or ice sheet. The term is also used more broadly for any similar deep breach in an embankment, levee, or the earth's surface. Related: fissure, rift, chasm, crack.
- MORAINE /məˈreɪn/ · noun
- A ridge or irregular mass of rock debris transported and deposited by a glacier. Moraines mark the routes and former limits of glacial movement. Related: glacial deposit, glacial ridge, glacial till.
- BERG /bɜːrɡ/ · noun
- A mass of ice floating in the sea, especially a large detached fragment of a glacier or ice shelf — in short, an iceberg. Related: iceberg, floebit, growler.
- FIRN /fɜːrn/ · noun
- Firn is granular, compacted snow that has survived at least one full melt season but has not yet consolidated into glacier ice, forming the intermediate stage between fresh snow and glacial ice. Related: névé, old snow.
- ARETE /ˈærəteɪ/ · noun
- In ancient Greek thought, arete is excellence or virtue — the fulfilment of a thing's or person's highest potential and function. In modern English it is used chiefly in philosophy, classics, and self-development contexts to mean outstanding merit or moral goodness. Related: excellence, virtue, merit, goodness.
- CIRQUE /sɜːrk/ · noun
- A steep-walled, bowl-shaped hollow or amphitheater at the head of a mountain valley, formed by glacial erosion; also, in older usage borrowed from French, a circular arena such as that of a Roman circus. Related: corrie, cwm, amphitheater, hollow.
- TUNDRA /ˈtʌndrə/ · noun
- A treeless biome of polar and high-altitude regions, characterized by cold temperatures, a short growing season, and low-growing vegetation. It may occur on permanently frozen ground or on alpine slopes above the tree line. Related: treeless plain, Arctic plain, barrens, alpine grassland.
- FROZEN /ˈfrəʊ.zən/ (UK); /ˈfroʊ.zən/ (US) · adjective
- Frozen describes something turned into or hardened by ice, or rendered immobile and unable to act or change. It is also the past participle of the verb 'freeze'. Related: icy, glacial, frigid, polar.
- ERRATIC /ɪˈrætɪk/ · adjective
- Moving or behaving in an irregular, unpredictable way, with no fixed pattern; inconsistent. As a noun, it refers to a rock fragment carried by glacial ice and deposited far from its origin. Related: unpredictable, inconsistent, irregular, capricious.
- ABLATION /əˈbleɪʃən/ · noun
- The removal or destruction of material from the surface of an object, whether by melting, evaporation, erosion, or other processes. In medicine, it refers to the surgical removal of body tissue, and in glaciology to the loss of snow or ice through melting and sublimation. Related: removal, erosion, excision, vaporization.
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