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| The grinding and weathering down of rock surfaces by other rock or sand particles |
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| A semi-circular basin on the side of a mountain where a glacier used to be |
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| A large crack or hole in the ice of a glacier |
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| Ridge of sand that was a glacial river at one point |
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| The process by which a glacier picks rocks and sediments up as it moves over and drops them in other places as it moves |
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| Point where 3 arets come together as a point |
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| A large piece of ice that breaks off an ice shelf and drifts into the ocean |
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| Thick deposits of wind blown fine-grained sediments |
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| Pile of glacial sediment made of till |
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| Sediments of all the same type |
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| un-sorted rock material that is deposited directly by glacial ice when it melts |
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| Point at a glacier where it melts more than it snows |
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| Point in a glacier where it snows more than it melts |
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