Glaciers
Title: Glaciers
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 336 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Glaciers
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 336 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Glaciers
Glaciers are very important to our life on earth. Humans threaten glaciers with pollution that helps cause global warming. People rarely think of the damage that global warming could cause if the world's glaciers to begin melting. However glacier ice is important to the human population around the world. If the earth were to warm enough to melt all the glaciers the sea level would rise around 200 feet. This new sea level would be
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debris onto a glacier surface from the land above it. The material transported by a glacier ranges from house-sized boulders to clay particles. When the glacier melt, all of this material is left where the melting occurred. The remainining material can greatly change the surface of the land. Most of the land today has been shaped and formed by glaciers. Our glaciers today our remnants of the ice that covered the earth in the ice-age.