There are two main types of glaciers. Alpine glaciers and continental glaciers. The picture on the left is of Alpine glacier, which are normally only found on mountain terrain. The picture on the right is continental glacier, which cover large areas.

Glacier picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Argentina-Perito_Moreno-Glacier.jpg

The top of ever glacier is called the accumulation zone because it's the place that recieves the most snowfall. All of the glacier in the picture is part of the accumulation zone. If the camera zoomed out you would see the desposition zone where more ice is lost through melting than gained from the snowfall on top. The point at which the glacier melts to nothing is called the ice front.

Inconvenient Truth - Glaciers recede around the world

This is a picture from:

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It shows the features of glaciation. There are few places in the world where you can see these features because there are hardly any glaciers around anymore. They are only in the North and south poles and in high mountain ranges such as the Alps. Even during the Ice age known as the pleistocene epoch Glaciers never reached to close to the equator

An interesting Location from google maps: