General Geographic terms

horizontal direction to which a mountain slope faces

A condition occurring when backward melting at the front of a glacier.

People moving from rural (villages) areas of the country into cities.

The earth is divided into a small number of plates

Fold mountains are mountains formed mainly by the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth's crust

A thin part of the earths crust which is taken place in the ocean

It is the layer of the earth that separates the continents

A subduction zone is an area on earth where two tectonic plates move towards one another and one slides under the other.

Destructive boundaries make the plates move towards each other and eventually collide.

That part of a glacier where the mean annual gain of ice, firn, and snow is greater than the mean annual loss.

Mixed old and new snow that has passed through one summer melt season but is not yet glacial ice

Region in a glacier where there is a surface net removal of snow and/or ice by melting, sublimation, and/or calving.