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 /ˈɡleɪsiər/ · noun
- A large, slowly moving river of ice formed from compacted snow on land, typically in high latitudes or at high elevations. A glacier can be several kilometers wide and hundreds of meters thick. Related: ice sheet, ice field, frost, ice cap.
- SNOW /snɔʊ/ · noun, verb
- A natural substance composed of ice crystals that falls from the sky during winter, or to cover a surface with a layer of this substance. Snow can also refer to a white or pale color, especially one that is dull and lacking in brightness. Related: ice, frost, hail, sleet.
- 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 /mɔːˈreɪn/ · noun
- A ridge of rock or soil deposited by a glacier, typically in a curved or sinuous shape. A moraine can also refer to a ridge of soil or rock formed by the action of the sea or a river. Related: ridge, bank, bar, esker.
- 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 vast, treeless region of cold, Arctic or sub-Arctic climate, typically with low vegetation and permafrost. Related: taiga, steppes, grasslands, moor.
- 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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