useful terminology 

An introduction...

Watch the video clip on the front page of Extreme Ice Survey   

Vanishing Glaciers - watch this

Want to know more about geological time scales?  click here!

 All your questions answered?! 

Terminology sheet - you can add to this too...

The Glacier as a system, the glacial budget and glacial processes - open the word doc and use the boardworks powerpoint to help you! Watch this clip that helps explain the glacial budget. ablation in action!

Glacial Processes - TASKS!

Erosional Landforms

• Corries,  Aretes and Pyramidal Peaks - complete this exercise
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• Glacial Troughs and Hanging Valleys
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• Ribbon Lakes

Once you have learned about all of your landforms you can search for real examples of these landforms  - include a labelled photograph of each one in your notes!  Make sure you can locate each example too.

Depositional landforms:

Moraines                                   WATCH THIS! - The Franz Joseph Glacier, New Zealand (also good for  glacier as a system and the zone of accumulation!) 

Drumlins

Spotting glacial features on a map -TASK to get you started and you can follow these links too:  Snowdonia - Mapzone  Geoactive

A useful link from the BBC too... OS map spotting

A Case study of a glacier: How has it retreated? What are the causes and evidence?  The Grosser Aletsch, Europe's longest glacier - see UG page 109

 SOURCE

Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network - interactive maps and data

Swiss Glacier Retreat - BBC news

This is a great swiss site to look at photos over time of many of the world' glaciers including the Aletsch glacier. Shows retreat and resulting features.