Just a Minute. Achievement Objective: GM2-1: Create and use appropriate units and devices to measure length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), turn (angle), temperature, and time. In these five activities the students develop an understanding of the duration of minutes and seconds. We also practice reading time by counting the minutes after the hour.
Video: 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, arÃªte and roche moutonnee.
Glaciers and glacial erosion. A glacier is mass of land ice so large that it flows downhill under its own weight. Glaciers develop in cool, wet areas where at least some of the snow that falls during one winter does not melt or evaporate by the next. Masses of snow and ice typically accumulate at the upper ends of valleys on peaks like Mount Shasta and, when the become thick enough, flow down these valleys as glaciers (Figure 10) .