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ICY CROSSWORDOnline version

Find the missing words-they are parts of polarpedia definitions (ICE&SNOW cathegory)

by Anna Wielgopolan
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Yedoma – carbon-rich Ice Complex – is ...................-age permafrost (formed during last Ice Age) that contains a significant amount of organic material with ice content of 50 to 90% by volume.

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In the Northern .............., regions in which permafrost occurs occupy approximately 25% (23 million km²) of the land area.

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Palsas are found in areas with discontinuous ............................. mostly in the circumpolar areas of the Northern Hemisphere: northern Canada and Alaska, Siberia, northern Fennoscandia and Iceland.

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As the cryoconite absorbs solar .................. and promotes ice melting beneath it, the cylindrical holes are formed (only during summer).

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Open system pingos have an open conduit that supplies ......... water.

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....... stakes are wooden or metal poles, immersed to a depth of a few meters in the ice.

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Sea water contains dissolved salts, therefore its freezing point is below 0 ° C (for .................... 35 o/oo the freezing point is minus 1.91 ° ​​C

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A frost quake (cryoseism) occurs when the ground is saturated with water, specifically the soil layer at the surface, and then a rapid ................... takes place.

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Debris-covered ............. are extensive and common in mountainous regions such as Himalayas, Pamir, Caucasus Mountains, Alaska, Alps, and Southern Alps in New Zealand.

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Acicular ice consists of numerous, long, needlelike ........ and hollow tubes with layered arrangement.

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Glacial earthquakes originate from massive breakup of ice (intense .............. events), primarily in Greenland or Antarctica.

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Cryoturbation is an important process in the active layer of permafrost, in which different materials from different layers of soil mix through each other, due to constant ........... and freezing.

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In areas with warmer summers, the ................. layer is thicker (about 2.5 metres in Yakutsk, Russia).

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Frost flowers are almost three times saltier than sea water, because as they form, a process called ....................rejection forces salt out of the porous sea ice, and up into the flowers.

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