How do glaciers shape the landscape? Animation from geog.1 Kerboodle?

Glaciers are like giant ice scoops that move across the land and change how it looks.

Imagine you're playing with a big snowball in your hands, rolling it down a hill, that’s kind of what glaciers do, but much bigger. They push and pull on the ground as they move.

Glaciers are made of ice, and when they move, they carry rocks and dirt with them. It's like if you were wearing a backpack full of pebbles and ran through a sandbox, you'd leave marks behind.

• When glaciers go over mountains, they can carve out valleys, making them look like the inside of a giant cookie.
• When they stop moving and melt, they leave behind moraines, which are like piles of rocks and dirt that look like giant sandcastles on the ground.
• Sometimes, when glaciers move away, they make lakes, it’s as if the ice scooped out a basin in the land, and then water filled it up.

So, just like how your snowball changes shape as you roll it around, glaciers change the landscape as they go.