In glacial areas, climate change is likely to contribute to devastating floods more directly.
In follow - up studies, the Tübingen researchers are
investigating glacial areas of the Swiss Alps, which have similar climatic conditions to the poles.
Eight page booklet: define glacier keywords; map skills page to locate and
name glacial areas around the World; SPAG exercise about the glaciers on Mars; page to compare advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the glacial landscape of the Lake District; moral dilemma about whether people in the UK should be concerned with the melting of Himalayan glaciers; research page about glaciers in World cultures; and finally a page about Ötzi the Iceman and how his body was analysed by archaeologists
In addition to the alternation in some near -
glacial areas between braiding during maximum cold and meandering during interglacial warmth, the record...
A simple task that allows pupils to analyse an image from
a glacial area and compare it to a lowland area in the UK.
Global - scale distribution of cold and high altitude environments (polar,
glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places) and hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)
In Western Europe,
glacial area has shrunk by up to 40 percent and glacial volume by more than half since 1850.