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Icebergs
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/App/WsvPageDsp.cfm?ID=238&LnId=25&Lang=eng
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This site contains both qualitative and quantitative information about icebergs. Students will discover that an iceberg is a massive piece of ice of greatly varying shape, protruding 5 m or more above sea-level, which has broken away from a glacier and which may be afloat or aground. They will also find that icebergs are classified by shape and size. This information is from the Manual of Standard Procedures for Observing and Reporting Ice Conditions. It describes the shapes as tabular, non-tabular, domed, pinnacle, wedge, drydock, and blocky and supplements the description with diagrams. Size is classified on the basis of height, length and weight and includes growlers, bergy bits, and small, medium, large, and very large bergs. Students learn that bergs are mainly white but may appear blue if bubble free and may also be dark from wind blown debris. This site also contains information on the migration and movement of icebergs, including a migration chart.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Middle (6-8)
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • Visual:
    • Illustration - scientific
    • Map
    • Photograph
  • Text:
    • Glossary
    • Ref. material
Subject:
  • Cryology
  • Natural hazards
  • Ocean Sciences:
    • Physical oceanography
Technical requirements:
No specific technical requirements, just a browser required
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Information on this site has been posted to be readily available for personal and public non-commercial use. Unless otherwise noted by the application of the copyright symbol, materials on this site may be reproduced, in part or in whole and by any means, without charge or further permission from Canadian Ice Service, Environment Canada. Users exercise due diligence in ensuring the accuracy of the materials reproduced, Environment Canada be identified as the source department, and the reproduction is not represented as an official version of the materials reproduced, nor as having been made in affiliation with or with the endorsement of the departmental organisation.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-006-165
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • 5-8:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • D - Earth and space science:
        • Structure of the earth system
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Natural hazards
    • 9-12:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • D - Earth and space science:
        • Energy in the earth system
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Natural and human-induced hazards
  • National Geography Standards:
    • The uses of geography:
      • How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future
    • The world in spatial terms:
      • How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: Environment Canada
Canadian Ice Service