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Question 1

albedo effect

Answer 1

how much sunlight a surface reflects back into space

Question 2

calving

Answer 2

breaking up of chunks of ice at the glacier snout or ice sheet front to form icebergs as the glacier reaches a lake or the ocean

Question 3

thermohaline circulation

Answer 3

a global system of surface and deep-water ocean currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity between areas of the ocean

Question 4

quarternary period

Answer 4

period fo time we are currently living in, which is divided into two periods

Question 5

pleistocene

Answer 5

beginning of quarternary to about 11,500 years ago when most recent glaical period called Devensian ended

Question 6

Holocene

Answer 6

interglacial period we are currently in

Question 7

LGM

Answer 7

last glacial maximum

Question 8

entrainment

Answer 8

where sediment is incorporated into a moving glacier

Question 9

scree

Answer 9

pile of loose rocks on mountain slopes

Question 10

quarrying

Answer 10

meltwater freezes to rocks, and as glacier moves it pulls rock

Question 11

plucking

Answer 11

glacier freezes to rock and pulls pieces away off bedrock as it moves