Glacier Land Formation
Experiment
Excerpts written by Hayden, Kai,
Kelley, Mary Kate, and Ruben
What do you predict will happen to the land below glaciers and ice sheets?
The land will get muddy and it will stick to the ice.
The ice will freeze the dirt and dirt will freeze to the bottom of the ice.
The ice would melt and freeze when it gets warmer and colder (like climate change.)
There would be new land formations.
What we observed:
As the ice is melting, the sand, rocks, pebbles, and sticks got stuck to the ice. The land gets wet,
and when we put the tray back in the freezer, the sand and the ice all froze together.
How can the movement of glaciers impact the land?
The ice pushes the land and forms it. The ice is so heavy it pushes the land down under it, so it forms the land
in front of it into mountains. Moving glaciers form valleys. Glaciers move about a foot and a half a day by
moving on melted glacier water that makes it slippery. They move by creeping.
What evidence of the impact of glaciers do we see on earth today?
People can find evidence of the animals of long ago in fossils. We see mountains, valleys, rock formations (herd
of sheep), chasms, and grooves and stripes on the rocks. We see lakes and water from glaciers melting, and big
boulders that glaciers left behind.
The End