Glaciers
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Topics
- Glaciers
- Climate
Description
Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.
Sample Learning Goals
- Explain how environmental conditions (temperature and precipitation) impact glacial mass budget; identify where snow accumulates in a glacier and justify why.
- Explain how ice moves within a glacier; describe and illustrate flow within a glacier.
- Explain or illustrate (demonstrate) how glaciers (i) stay at equilibrium, (ii) grow/advance, (iii) shrink/retreat, and (iv) form; compare climatic conditions leading to each.
- Determine and illustrate how multiple advance-retreat cycles affect the record of glacial end moraines.
Version 2.04
Teacher-Submitted Activities
Investigating Climate Change at the Macroscopic and Microscopic Level |
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Amy Rouinfar | HS MS |
Lab | Earth Science |
Glaciers Earth Science |
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Trish Loeblein updated by Diana López | MS HS |
Other | Physics Chemistry Biology Earth Science |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | Chemistry Biology Earth Science Physics |
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MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | MS HS |
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Investigating Glaciers | John Judkins | MS HS |
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Guía de trabajo ambiental desde el simulador Glaciares | Julio César Páez García, Evaristo Manuel Solano Tenorio y Elvira Isabel Pérez Puche | HS | Guided | Earth Science Physics Other |
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