19-04 Glacier 1TTO

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• Leerjaar 1

4.3 Glaciers 

Today's subject 

1. What is a glacier? 

2. Different components of a glacier 

3. Glaciers: Weathering and erosion 

4. Glaciers: Erosion landforms 

5. Glaciers: Depositional landforms 

1. What is a glacier? 

- Landmass, shaped like a river 

- More snow falls in an area than melts 

- Glacial periods 

2. Different components of a glacier 

3. Glaciers: Weathering and erosion 

How do glaciers shape a landscape? 

What did you wrote down?

3. Glaciers: Weathering and erosion 

- Plucking: The movement of glacier pulls rocks away. 

- Abrasion: Rocks scrape along the bottom and the side of the glacier 

3. Glaciers: Weathering and erosion 

4. Erosion landforms 

5. Depositional landforms 

Homework 

Paragraph 4.3: 3, 4, 6 and 8