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Answered by Divineshallots09
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what do you mean by glaciers?

A glacier is a large, perennial accumulation of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on land and moves down slope under the influence of its own weight and gravity

what do you mean by cliffs?

a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.

what do you mean by fold mountains

Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded into rocky outcrops, hills, mountains, and entire mountain ranges. Fold mountains are created through a process called orogeny

what do you mean by mountain ranges?

noun. a series of more or less connected mountains ranged in a line. a series of mountains, or of more or less parallel lines of mountains, closely related, as in origin.

Answered by SWEETYASH
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7. A glacier is a large, perennial accumulation of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on land and moves down slope under the influence of its own weight and gravity.

8. Cliffs are usually formed because of processes called erosion and weathering. Weathering happens when natural events, like wind or rain, break up pieces of rock. In coastal areas, strong winds and powerful waves break off soft or grainy rocks from hardier rocks. The harder rocks are left as cliffs.

9. Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded into rocky outcrops, hills, mountains, and entire mountain ranges.

10. A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. ... Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics.

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