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By: Jaden Maharg, Jessica Sheldahl, Charlie Haight, Alec Holman

Glaciers of Awesomeness. For Apathetic Teenagers . By: Jaden Maharg, Jessica Sheldahl, Charlie Haight, Alec Holman. Basic Glacier Terms. Before you read, here are a few words you might want to know Glacier - a huge, moving, mass of ice, snow, rock, sediment, and water.

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By: Jaden Maharg, Jessica Sheldahl, Charlie Haight, Alec Holman

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  1. Glaciers of Awesomeness For Apathetic Teenagers By: Jaden Maharg, Jessica Sheldahl, Charlie Haight, Alec Holman

  2. Basic Glacier Terms Before you read, here are a few words you might want to know • Glacier- a huge, moving, mass of ice, snow, rock, sediment, and water. • Accumulation- the addition of snow and ice to a glacier • Ablation- the loss of snow and ice in a glacier • Firn- the middle stage in the changing of snow to glacier ice. • Advance- the addition of length to a glacier • Retreat- the loss of length to a glacier • Surge- a sudden short ‘surge’ of ice flow

  3. How do glaciers form? Glaciers are formed when snow and ice accumulates and is compressed into huge ice masses.

  4. Not So Much Fun Facts • Glaciers, today cover 10% of all land area. • But in the ice age they covered 32% of land and 30% of water area! That’s a lot! • In the past 750,000 years there have been eight ice ages • Right now we are not in and ice age but in an interglacial period.

  5. Why do I care? • Welllllllllllll… • The glaciers seem to be retreating a lot lately and not so much moving forward. This may be do to the fact that we are in an interglacial period (not an ice age). • This is called Climate Change! • This is not our fault, its just mother nature (earth) warming up! 

  6. BUT ALSO! • Climate change may not be our fault but with our releasing CO2 emissions we may be speeding up this process hurting the Earth. Oh noes!

  7. Types of these Glaciers!  The Valley Glacier (of doom!) They look like giant tongues when they spill down into ‘valleys’ thus the name. The Cirque Glacier (of happiness! ) They are wide, not long, (I am being smarterer) and found on the high mountain sides.

  8. The New words that you learned and what they are doing in your head! Retreat!!! Glaciers Interglacial Cirque Surge Firn

  9. So... Do you want to help the glaciers??? YES!! NO!!

  10. So... Do you want to help the glaciers??? NO!! YES!!

  11. So... Do you want to help the glaciers??? NO!! YES!!

  12. GREAT And you can help by visiting your local National Park to learn more about the Glaciers!

  13. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! • Thanks to PEAK GT program for the trip to glacier, the info. and the technology.

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