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The snow keeps pressing together until all the air in the snow is gone then it pushes together more until it turns into a glacier.

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Q: How does snow turn into ice to form a glacier?
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What is glacier ice?

A glacier is something that forms when snow falls in a place where it never has the time to melt. Eventually it builds up thick enough to turn into a thick slab of ice, and that's a glacier. Cut a piece of it, and that's glacier ice.


How is glacier different from snow?

A glacier is made up of fallen snow, that over time, compresses together to form a solid chunk of ice. Glaciers are classified as such only after reaching 0.1 km2 in area and 50m thick. Snow is a form of precipitation in Earth's atmosphere in the form of crystalline water ice consisting of many snowflakes that fall from the sky. So snow is what forms a glacier over a large amount of time.


What is the difference between an ice berg and a glacier?

an ice berg is a chunk off off a glacier and a glacier is a big ice patch caused by snow


What is a large mass of snow and ice that moves slowly over land?

Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over ice is called a glacier.


What do you call fresh snow on a glacier?

ice


Is a glacier formed by a flow of a river?

No. A glacier is a mass of moving snow and ice.


When new snow is added to a glacier faster than ice and snow melt does the glacier get larger or smaller?

Smaller


What is cold regions snow can accumulate over many years to form huge masses of ice is called?

glacier


What is a large mass of ice and snow moving on land under its own weight?

That is usually called a glacier


Which part of a glacier melts during the summer?

Snow and ice


Which part of the glacier melts during the summer?

Snow and ice


Why is the weight of snow needed to make glacier ice?

the weight of the newer snow compresses the older snow.