Glaciers
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About
Topics
- Glaciers
- Climate
Description
Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.
Sample Learning Goals
- Explain how environmental conditions (temperature and precipitation) impact glacial mass budget; identify where snow accumulates in a glacier and justify why.
- Explain how ice moves within a glacier; describe and illustrate flow within a glacier.
- Explain or illustrate (demonstrate) how glaciers (i) stay at equilibrium, (ii) grow/advance, (iii) shrink/retreat, and (iv) form; compare climatic conditions leading to each.
- Determine and illustrate how multiple advance-retreat cycles affect the record of glacial end moraines.
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For Teachers
Teacher-Submitted Activities
Title | Authors | Level | Type | ||
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Investigating Climate Change at the Macroscopic and Microscopic Level | Amy Rouinfar | MS HS |
Lab | ||
Glaciers Earth Science | Ryan Tucek | HS | Lab | ||
How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? | Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | ||
Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS | Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | ||
Investigating Glaciers | John Judkins | MS HS |
Guided Lab |
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MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | MS HS |
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Simulações no Ensino de Fisica | Carla Tavares | HS | HW MC Demo Guided Lab Discuss Other |
Translations
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Afrikaans | All Afrikaans | Gletsers | |||
Basque | All Basque | Glaziarrak | |||
Chinese (Simplified) | All 中文 (中国) | 冰川 | |||
Chinese (Traditional) | All 中文 (台灣) | 冰川 | |||
Croatian | All hrvatski | Ledanjaci | |||
Danish | All Dansk | Gletsjere | |||
Dutch | All Nederlands | Gletsjers | |||
Estonian | All Eesti | Liustikud | |||
French | All français | Glaciers | |||
German | All Deutsch | Gletscher | |||
Greek | All Ελληνικά | Παγετώνες | |||
Hebrew | All עברית | קרחונים | |||
Hungarian | All magyar | Gleccserek | |||
Italian | All italiano | Ghiacciai | |||
Japanese | All 日本語 | 氷河 | |||
Kazakh | All Kazakh | мұздықтар | |||
Korean | All 한국어 | 빙하 | |||
Macedonian | All македонски | Глечери | |||
Norwegian Bokmal | All Norsk bokmål | Isbreer | |||
Persian | All فارسی | يخچال طبيعي | |||
Polish | All polski | Lodowce | |||
Portuguese (Brazil) | All português (Brasil) | Geleiras | |||
Serbian | All Српски | ГЛЕЧЕРИ | |||
Slovak | All Slovenčina | Ľadovec | |||
Spanish | All español | Glaciares | |||
Spanish (Peru) | All español (Perú) | Glaciares | |||
Thai | All ไทย | ธารน้ำแข็ง | |||
Turkish | All Türkçe | Buzullar | |||
Turkmen | All Turkmen | Buzluklar (lednik) | |||
Vietnamese | All Tiếng Việt | Băng hà |
Related Simulations
Software Requirements
Windows | Macintosh | Linux |
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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
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OS 10.5 or later Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later
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Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
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Credits
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