Life Cycle of a Glacier Organizer

1.  What is the percentage of air in snow at the top of the glacier? _________

2.  What causes snowflakes to get closer to each other? _________________

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3.  What is the percentage of air in snow after it has been compacted? _____

4.  What happens to the ice crystals as snow accumulates year after year? 

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5.  What is the percentage of air in the ice at its densest? _____________

6.  What causes the ice crystal to make its journey through the glacier? ____

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7.  How is a warm glacier similar to an ice skate? _____________________

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8.  Which moves faster, a warm glacier or a cold glacier?  Why? _________

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9.  Describe two ways in which glaciers lose their mass.

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