ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Glacial landform

So basically, a long, long time ago, there were these things called glaciers. Glaciers are kind of like giant, moving piles of ice that cover a lot of ground.

Well, as these glaciers moved around, they scraped up huge amounts of dirt, rocks, and other stuff from the ground. Then they carried all that stuff along as they moved.

Now, when the glacier started to melt (because of things like a warmer climate or changes in the Earth's surface), all that stuff they picked up started to get left behind.

And that's where we get glacial landforms. They're just the shapes and formations left behind by glaciers. Like, for example, a U-shaped valley. This is a special kind of valley that's formed by the movement of the glacier.

Or maybe a moraine, which is a big ridge of rocks and dirt that the glacier left behind.

These landforms can be really cool to look at, and they're also important because they can give us clues about what the Earth was like a long, long time ago when those glaciers were around.