GIANT BLANKET OF ICE
No sunbathing here! The shore is all ice.
The giant blanket of ice that you see in the picture is the Columbia
Glacier in Prince William Sound in Alaska. “Glacier” comes from a French
word that means “ice.” Glaciers are made when a lot of snow falls on
mountains or hills. The snow packs together solidly and freezes and
forms a huge hunk of ice.
The sun can’t melt a glacier completely because the weather stays too
cold.
As the glacier moves, large icebergs break off it and fall into the water—kersplash! But the Columbia Glacier moves so little in one day
that even a turtle can travel farther in ten minutes.
This is how the Columbia Glacier looks from an airplane.
