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Card 6

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How do glaciers move?

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Card 7

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Why does redistribution of ice occur?

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Card 8

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What is the balance velocity?

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Card 9

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What are ice streams?

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Card 10

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How can ice streams be identified?

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Card 11

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What factors contribute to the "driving stress" (force which pushes ice flows downslope)?

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Card 12

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Define: ice creep

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Card 13

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What can affect the rate of ice creep?

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Card 14

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To what extent does temperature affect ice creep?

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Card 15

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Why does the measured velocity of a glacier often deviate from the norm?

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