The glacier carved a deep U-shaped valley over thousands of years, leaving behind a distinctive landscape.
冰川在数千年间雕刻出深邃的U形山谷，留下了独特的地貌。
Glaciologist Kirsten Vold's model predicts that a particular alpine glacier will disappear entirely within 25 years given current warming trends.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
A separate research team led by Hana Yamada found that increased snowfall at the glacier's highest elevations, linked to a regional shift in storm patterns, is adding mass at the top of the glacier fast enough to partially offset the melting occurring lower down, though not eliminate it.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
An article about glacier retreat opens with a description of a single ice core sample drilled from a specific glacier, then broadens to explain global patterns of glacial melt, before returning to that same ice core to describe what its layered chemistry reveals about past climate conditions.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “glacier”?
A — Large mass of ice. “glacier” means large mass of ice.
Which word means “large mass of ice”?
A — glacier. “glacier” means large mass of ice.
glacier — large mass of ice. In Chinese: 冰川，冰河.
glacier is pronounced /ˈɡleɪʃər/.
The glacier carved a deep U-shaped valley over thousands of years, leaving behind a distinctive landscape. (冰川在数千年间雕刻出深邃的U形山谷，留下了独特的地貌。)
ice sheet, ice mass, ice field — all close in meaning to glacier (large mass of ice).
Yes. glacier is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
glacier(Ice river)