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Vocabulary Questions

1) What is an Esker?

A Sinuous ride composed largely of sand and gravel deposited by a stream flowing in a tunnel beneath a glacier near its terminus.

A deep crack in the brittle surface of a glacier

The general term for any glacial deposit.

2) This: "A pyramid peak formed by glacial action in three or more cirques surrounding a mountain summit" is the definition for which glacial vocabulary word?

An Arete

A Cirque

A Horn

3) This: is a picture of what?

A Crevasse

An end moraine

A kame

Short Answer Questions

 

4) Describe the two ways a glacier moves.

Answer here!  

5) Describe the difference between till, and stratified drift.

Answer here!  

6) Describe the three ways glaciers modify valleys as they move through them.

Answer here!  

True or False

7) Scientists know exactly what causes glacial ages.

True

False

8) When rock flour is mixed with water it is called glacial milk.

True

False

9) One way a glacier will change a valley as it moves through it is by making it U-shaped.

True

False

10) Sorted drift is known as till

True

False

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