Human Geography - Glaciers: Help and Review - Videos & Lessons

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The Glaciers chapter of this Human Geography Help and Review course is the simplest way to master glaciers. This chapter uses simple and fun videos that are about five minutes long, plus lesson quizzes and a chapter exam to ensure students learn the essentials of glaciers.

Who's it for?

Anyone who needs help learning or mastering human geography material will benefit from taking this course. There is no faster or easier way to learn human geography. Among those who would benefit are:

Students who have fallen behind in understanding glacier movement or glacial erosion
Students who struggle with learning disabilities or learning differences, including autism and ADHD
Students who prefer multiple ways of learning social science (visual or auditory)
Students who have missed class time and need to catch up
Students who need an efficient way to learn about glaciers
Students who struggle to understand their teachers
Students who attend schools without extra social science learning resources

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Find videos in our course that cover what you need to learn or review.
Press play and watch the video lesson.
Refer to the video transcripts to reinforce your learning.
Test your understanding of each lesson with short quizzes.
Verify you're ready by completing the Glaciers chapter exam.

Why it works:

Study Efficiently: Skip what you know, review what you don't.
Retain What You Learn: Engaging animations and real-life examples make topics easy to grasp.
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Students will review:

This chapter helps students review the concepts in a glaciers unit of a standard human geography course. Topics covered include:

Types and processes of glaciers
Glacier movement
Effects of accumulation and wastage on glacier formation
Glacial erosion and deposition
Effect of Ice Age glaciers
Glaciation causes

7 Lessons in Chapter 11: Human Geography - Glaciers: Help and Review

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1. What Are Glaciers? - Definition, Types & Processes

Learn about the two major types of glaciers: continental and alpine glaciers. These glaciers shape the landscape around them and affect our everyday lives, even if the nearest glacier is thousands of miles away.

2. Glacier Movement: Definition & Process

Glaciers are mountains of ice that move. This movement is usually a combination of processes that include internal plastic deformation and basal sliding. Learn about these processes and factors that increase glacial flow rates.

3. The Effect of Accumulation & Wastage on Glacier Formation

Glaciers grow through a process called accumulation and waste away through a process called wastage, or ablation. Learn about these processes and how they are used to determine the health, or mass balance, of a glacier.

4. Glacial Erosion: Definition, Processes & Features

Glaciers are huge blocks of ice that move along the landscape, carving distinct features along the way. Learn about the glacial erosion processes, plucking and abrasion, and the features they create, including cirque, horns, arête and roche moutonnee.

5. Glacial Deposition: Definition & Results

As glaciers move and retreat, they push and drop rocks and sediments in a process known as glacial deposition. Learn about this glacial process and the interesting landforms that result from it, including moraines, erratics and drumlins, in this lesson.

6. The Effect of Ice Age Glaciers: Formation of Pluvial Lakes

Ice age glaciers caused erosion and deposition, which resulted in unique features such as horns, cirques, lakes, U-shaped valleys, moraines and drumlins. Indirect effects include pluvial lakes, isostatic depression and a change in sea level.

7. Causes of Glaciation

Glaciation refers to being covered with glaciers. Learn about the theories behind glaciation, including the changing continental positions and the Milankovitch theory, which points to three orbital variations: eccentricity, obliquity and precession, in this lesson.

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