What is FIFA? Detailed answer

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What is FIFA?

This is an abbreviation for the International Football Federation (Federation Internationale de Football Association, FIFA), founded in 1904 in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA currently has 208 national football associations. Under the auspices of FIFA, every four years, between the Olympic Games, the World Football Championships are held.

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How do glaciers move?

It should not be thought that glaciers existed mainly during the Ice Age. They are still quite common today. The most common are alpine glaciers. They were named after the Alps - a mountain system in the center of Europe, where there are more than 1200 such glaciers. And in the high mountains in the south of the Alaska Peninsula there are several tens of thousands of them! Alpine, or as they are also called, valley glaciers slide down from snow-capped peaks like mighty ice rivers.

The source of a huge amount of snow, which mostly forms alpine glaciers, is the upper part of the valley, shaped like an amphitheater, enclosed by steep mountain slopes. Snow is blown away by the wind and rolls down in the form of avalanches. In summer, it does not have time to melt, and every year the snow cover becomes thicker. In the end, the lower layers of snow compact, thaw, freeze and turn into ice.

Under the weight of snow located higher up the slope, the mass of ice gradually begins to slide down into the valley. As the glacier descends below the snow mass of the mountains, it begins to melt.

When the melting process proceeds no faster than the movement of the glacier, the latter remains in one place. If the situation is the opposite, then the glacier, as it were, "turns back" and returns to the upper part of the valley. In cases where alpine glaciers slide off the slopes of mountains located on the sea coast, huge blocks of ice eventually break off from them and become floating ice islands - icebergs.

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