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How glaciers shape the land
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Follow a natural process explained in a lecture.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- glacier
- A very large mass of ice that moves slowly.
- scrape
- To rub something hard against a surface.
- carve
- To cut into a shape.
Answer key
- A glacier is a huge mass of ice that moves very slowly.In American English “glacier” is said “glay-sher”.
- As it moves, it scrapes rocks from the ground beneath it.“Beneath” means under.
- Over thousands of years, glaciers can carve deep valleys.“Carve” has a long ah sound.
- Many lakes in northern regions were formed this way.The stress in “regions” is on “re”.
- Today, most glaciers are shrinking because of rising temperatures.“Shrinking” means getting smaller.