Customer Reviews for Tmw Media Group Physical Geography II: Glaciers: Clues To Future Climate DVD

Discover the wonders of our earth with the Physical Geography II DVD Series. This DVD covers present-day glaciers that have considerable economic importance in many areas.

In the western United States glaciers are considered to be frozen reservoirs which release water during the warmer summer months. They are also of considerable importance to the irrigation of crops and hydroelectric power and to feeding underground water reservoirs. For this reason scientists have been studying glaciers around the world. Students will explore how glaciologists are using new scientific tools to study glaciers on the surface of the earth, as well as how satellites keep track of glacial growth or shrinkage in places like Antarctica, Greenland and Iceland. Grades 8-12. 23 minutes on DVD.