1. Glacial depositional landforms
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2. What does the ice leave behind?
• Lesson objectives
1) To understand what glacial deposition
is.
2) To look at some of the features of
glacial deposition.
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3. • Remember glaciers erode, transport and
then deposit material as well.
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4. Moraine
• Moraine is a French word meaning
debris – i.e. it is all the rock debris
that a glacier carries down the
mountain.
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5. You are the smiley face and you drop an orange into the river,
mark its path on the picture!

6. How did that line of moraine get there?
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8. Task:
• As we go through each moraine, cut
out the correct one and stick it on
the sheet as well as making notes
next to it!
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9. Lateral Moraine
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10. Lateral MoraineLateral Moraine
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11. 1) Lateral Moraine
Lateral moraine is a line of ______ material
along the sides of a valley ______.
Lateral moraine consist of rocks and bigger
_______ that are angular and are all
together.
Glacier Mixed Boulders Deposited
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12. Medial Moraine
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13. 2) Medial Moraine
• Medial moraine is a ___ of deposited
material in the middle of a _____.
• When a smaller (tributary) glacier joins a
____ glacier, the material that was along
the ____ of both of the glaciers joins up.
• It is called medial moraine because ‘medial’
means ‘______’!
• main line sides middle glacier
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14. Terminal Moraine
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15. 3) Terminal Moraine
• Terminal moraine is a line of deposited
________ at the end of a _______
• At the end of the glacier the glacier ____
and therefore the material it has been
______ forms a ridge across the glacier,
whilst it ________ back up the valley.
• retreats melts pushing
material
Glacier
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16. 4. Outwash Plain
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17. 4. Outwash Plain
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18. 4. Outwash Plain
• An outwash plain is the piece of land which
the water ______ from the ______ flows
out over.
• The sediment in the water is ________ in
this ____ area to create a delta like
formation.
• flat deposited glacier melting
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19. Your turn!
• Put a title of Glacier Depositional Features
• Stick your sheet into your book.
• Imagine you are walking across a glacier and
describe what it is like
• E.g. I am slowly climbing over the rocks, there is lots
of debris here! This is called the …. Now
I’m on the ice and its amazing. I
can see…
If you have finished then draw a
picture of your adventure over the ice!
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