Youngest Level - The lifegiving glacier - Student's book 

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Welcome to the Icefjord Centre. The Icefjord Centre is a house holding many stories of ice and life with the ice. The Centre is located at Ilulissat in Greenland.

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This is what it looks like at the Icefjord Centre in wintertime. On the next page you will see where Ilulissat is located.

The word "glacier" means "a river of ice". A glacier is a slowly moving large mass of ice. A glacier is formed when new snow lays itself heavily upon the inland ice. The lowest section of ice moves out towards the coast because of the pressure from the top section of heavy snow. The ice "river" that emerges, you call a glacier. The Sermeq Kujalleq glacier produces the world´s fastest stream of ice. It moves at a speed of up to 40 metres a day.

When the glacier ice is on its way to the ocean, it is pushed over the irregular underground. The irregular underground causes cracks and crevasses in the ice.

Then, when the glacier reaches the sea, the ice breaks off at the cracks.&nbsp; The pieces that break off become new icebergs. When this happens you say that the ice calves. In the video you can see how the ice calves and a large part of the ice breaks off.

Large Iceberg Breaking near Ilulissat

Now you are going to listen to a podcast called The life-giving glacier. You will hear Katrine Nyland tell about the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. It is the glacier that calves the most on Earth and at the same time it is the fastest. You will also listen to Malik. He is a helicopter pilot and he flies tourists out over the Icefjord and the glacier.

Welcome to the Icefjord Centre Map Ilulissat I live here The Icefjord Listen and talk Glaciers Calving The rich wildlife My glacier My reference book On a trip with Malik Malik´s flying route Collage

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The glacier in the Icefjord creates good conditions for the animals that live there. That is why we say that the glacier is life-giving. The animals are important for the people who live, fish and hunt in the area. In the old days the large mammals, like seals and whales, were essential to the settlements. Today many people fish halibut and shrimps in the Icefjord. This creates a teeming life around the harbour of Ilulissat. In the summer, when the ice withdraws, the animals move closer to the coast and can be caught from a boat. In the winter, when the ice covers the fjord, you can catch, among other animals, ringed seal at their breathing holes in the ice.

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