what are the two types of glaciers?
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Due to the complexity of glaciers, there are many different kinds. Broadly speaking, glaciers are divided into two groups: alpine glaciers and ice sheets. From here, depending on the part of the glacier or where it travels, they can be divided into further subgroups.
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Which type of glaciers occupy mountain valleys? Alpine glaciers.
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Glaciers are found in Arctic areas, Antarctica, and on high mountains in temperate and even tropical climates. Glaciers that extend in continuous sheets and cover a large landmass, such as Antarctica or Greenland, are called ice sheets. If they are similar but smaller, they are termed ice caps.
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The lakes in the mountains that have vivid blue and green colours are glacier fed. As the melt water from a glacier starts to flow in the spring time it carries with it glacier silt or rock flour. The silt is created when rocks underneath the surface of the ice are grinding from the movement of the glacier.
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The main types of depositional landforms are summarised below: Moraines – these are composed of rocky debris that has been removed from the valley sides and floor by weathering and erosion and carried downhill by glaciers.
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Glaciers are a destructive force because they can tear down anything in their path and pick up soil and other sediment as the rolls down a hill, BUT they can also constructive, because they can also deposition when they melt and could build up new landforms.
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Alpine glaciers form on the crests and slopes of mountains. A glacier that fills a valley is called a valley glacier, or alternatively an alpine glacier or mountain glacier. A large body of glacial ice astride a mountain, mountain range, or volcano is termed an ice cap or ice field.
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['Biogeography. ... ', 'Climatology. ... ', 'Coastal Geography. ... ', 'Environmental Geography. ... ', 'Geomorphology. ... ', 'Glaciology. ... ', 'Hydrology. ... ', 'Landscape Ecology.']
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['Alpine Glacier. a glacier in a mountain range.', 'Ice Sheet. -enormous continuous continental glacier. ... ', 'Ice Cap. -round, circular. ... ', 'Ice Field. -The least extensive form of a glacier. ... ', 'Ice Shelf. ...', 'Iceberg. -form where glaciers meet the ocean.', 'Ground Ice. ...', 'Sea Ice. -Frozen ocean water.']
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An ice cap is a glacier, a thick layer of ice and snow, that covers fewer than 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles). Glacial ice covering more than 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles) is called an ice sheet. ... Ice caps form like other glaciers.
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A glacier is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly over land. The term “glacier” comes from the French word glace (glah-SAY), which means ice. Glaciers are often called “rivers of ice.” Glaciers fall into two groups: alpine glaciers and ice sheets.
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Continental glaciers, also called ice sheets, cover large amounts of land in the Earth's polar regions. The largest ice sheets are located in Antarctica. In the Arctic region, an ice sheet covers Greenland and there is an ice sheet in Iceland. ... Alpine glaciers are found in high mountain valleys worldwide.
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['Plains.', 'Forest.', 'Jungle.', 'Mountains.', 'Desert.', 'Taiga.', 'Snowy tundra.', 'Swamp.']
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Fresh water includes water in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, and even underground water called groundwater. Fresh water is generally characterized by having low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
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valley glaciers is a glacier usually originating in a cirque at a valley head and flowing downward between the walls of a valley. A continental glacier is covers many miles covering the continent. a rock that is moved on the Earth's surface by water, wind, ice or gravity.
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Here are the main types of natural landscapes: Desert, Plain, Taiga, Tundra, Wetland, Mountain, Mountain range, Cliff, Coast, Littoral zone, Glacier, Polar regions of Earth, Shrubland, Forest, Rainforest, Woodland, Jungle, Moors.
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['Huron-Erie Lake Plains.', 'Till Plains.', 'Central Lowland.', 'Glaciated Allegheny Plateau.', 'Appalachian Plateau.']