Glaciers
This type of glacier flows between steep rock walls from a place near the top of the mountain valley.
Valley Glacier
This type of weather exists alongside mechanical weathering, although, at a smaller significance.
Chemical weathering
Strong winds deposit this...
Sediments
Enormous ice masses that flow in all directions and cover everything but the highest land.
Ice sheets.
This ice sheet holds nearly two-thirds of Earth’s fresh water.
The Antarctic ice sheet.
This type of movement happens two ways: plastic and basal.
Flow
Most streams in the desert are this...
Ephemeral
Whenever wind encounters an obstruction, no matter how small, this can form
Dunes
Ice mass slips and slides downhill.
Basal slip.
True or False. After glaciation, alpine valleys are no longer narrow.
True
Glaciers erode the land through these two processes.
Plucking and abrasion
a cone of debris left when an intermittent stream flows out of a canyon, loses speed, and quickly dumps its sediment.
Alluvial fan
Barchanoid is a type of this...
Dune
The lowest elevation in a particular area that remains covered in snow all year.
Snowline.
As a glacier moves down a valley once occupied by a stream, the glacier widens, deepens, and straightens the valley. The once narrow V-shaped valley is changed into a U-shaped...
Glacial through.
This type of drift lays down sediment from glacial melt water.
Stratified drift.
This element does most of the erosional work in the desert.
Water
The lifting and removal of loose particles such as clay and silt is known as what.
Deflation
The material deposited directly by the glacier. It is deposited as the glacier melts and drops its load of rock debris.
Till.
True or False. During the recent ice age, glaciers covered almost 30 percent of Earth’s land.
True.
When a glacier losses ice faster than it gains ice, it does this...
Retreats
These types of streams are susceptible to flash floods.
Ephemeral streams
When does abrasion happen?
when wind-blown sand cuts and polishes exposed rock surfaces.
These form parallel to the wind.
Longitudinal dunes.
When glaciers melt, they leave layers or ridges of till called this...
Moraines.