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Glacier Bay National Park

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    Glacier Bay National Park
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  • A ______________________________ is a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above. Crevasse OR Bergschrund OR Cirque
    Bergschrund
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  • A _______________________________ is a deep, wedge-shaped opening in a moving mass of ice called a glacier. Cirque OR Horn OR Crevasse
    Crevasse
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  • _______________________________ are bowl-shaped, amphitheater-like depressions that glaciers carve into mountains and valley sidewalls at high elevations. Glacial Stairways OR Aretes OR Cirques
    Cirques
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  • _____________________________ are pointed peaks that are bounded on at least three sides by glaciers. Glacial Stairways OR Aretes OR Horns
    Horns
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  • _________________________________ is a thin, jagged crest that separates-or that once separated-two adjacent glaciers. Arete OR Moraine OR Hanging Valley
    Arete
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  • These are formed by tributary glaciers which enter a glacial trough. Aretes OR Hanging Valleys OR Glacial Stairways
    Hanging Valleys
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  • ______________________________________ happen when the glaciers descend from very high mountains into valleys, they develop steps or stairs along the walls of the valleys through the processes of abrasion and plucking. j
    Glacial Stairways
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  • A ___________________________________ is a river or other body of water’s steep fall over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool below. __________________________ are also called cascades. Cirque OR Waterfall OR Paternoster Lake
    Waterfall
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  • A ______________________________ is material left behind by a moving glacier. This material is usually soil and rock. Waterfall OR Mornaine Or Glacial Deposit
    Mornaine
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  • In geography, a ______________________________ is a glacial landform, created by big rock or stones deposited in the landscape when the glacier withdraws.Glacial Stairway or Cirque OR Glacial Deposit
    Glacial Deposit
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