Transcript A Glacier - Linwood Lab

A Glacier
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Glacier
• A large mass of ice
formed from snow high
ground and moving very
slowly down a
mountain or along a
sloping valley or
spreading slowly over a
large are of land until it
melts or breaks.
Northern Italy The Apls
Volcano
• An opening or openings in
the earths, crust at the
top of and sometimes on
the sides of a coneshaped hill or mountain,
connected to the interior
of the earth by a funnel
or crater through which
steam gases, ashes, rocks,
and lava are forced out in
periods of activity.
Island Sicily Mount Etna
They both are mountains.
Contrast A volcano has lava. A glacier is
formed from ice.