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Ice of All Shapes Worksheet

Name: ________________________
Date: _________________________

Type of Glacier

Description

Tidewater glacier

This flat glacier would be great to skate on.

Ice shelf

This glacier is shaped like a big bowl.

Mountain glacier

You have to hike up steep slopes to see this glacier.

Cirque glacier

This glacier sometimes breaks off into smaller pieces.

Which glacier looks like a giant tongue? _____________________________

Which glacier looks like big bumps spread on a plain? __________________

Which glacier can only be found in Antarctica and Greenland? ___________

Which glacier causes avalanches (great floods of snow)? ______________________________________________________________

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