Valley glaciers
Glacier Erosion
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Valley glaciers usually made of what?
What is Snow
100
How to glaciers shape landforms?
What is Though a processes of plucking, abrasion and deposition
100
Where do Continental glaciers form A. Antarctica B. Canada C. Chile D. Russia
What is Antarctica
100
Glaciers move under it's own weight and what?
What is Gravity
100
true or false can a glacier move rocks when moving?
What is true
200
Is a valley glacier narrow or is it wide?
What is narrow
200
Which of the following is NOT an effect on a valley during glaciation? a. valley may be filled with small lakes once the glacier is gone b. valley may become more jagged on its floors c. valley gets broader and deeper d. valley gets straightened
What is Valleys may become more jagged on its floors
200
Continental glaciers can get as big as a. 10 million square kilometers b. 50 miles c. 14 million square kilometers d. 1 million miles
What is 14 million square kilometers
200
Glaciers that cover more than 50,000 square kilometers are called a. Alpine b. Valley c. Valley Glaciers d. Continental glaciers
What are Continental glaciers
200
"_____ are long, tear-drop-shaped sedimentary formations" says http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/questions/land.html
What are drumlins
300
Valley Glaciers go down mountain ridges or to they go down open mountain hills.
What is mountain ridges
300
Which glaciers features are caused by Erosion?
What is Horns cirques, and aretes and U-shaped valleys
300
Does a continental glacier flow in all directions or just one
What is all directions
300
When a Continental glacier covers a huge body of land is causes a _____ ?
What is ice age
300
which idem leaves the glacier a. moraine b. kettle lakes c. till d. halve of the glacier
What is moraine
400
True or False Valley glaciers can change a landform into a new one
What is True
400
Which of the following is not a form of ablation? a. melting b. sublimation c. calving d. all of the above
What is all of the above
400
When a Continental glacier covers a huge body of land is causes a _____ ?
What is Ice age?
400
A glacier begins to move when the lice build a thickness of what?
What is 30 to 40 meters
400
Which glacial features are caused by deposition
What is moraines, drumlins and kettle lakes.
500
what do valley glaciers take down the mountain
What is rocks and sediments
500
Which of the following depositional features would you look for to assess whether an area had undergone glaciation? a. aretes b. Till c. terminal moraines d. all of the above
What is Terminal moraines
500
Continental glaciers can get as deep as what?
What is 1 mile
500
Glaciers store how much of the worlds freshwater supply?
What is 75%
500
How does a Moraine form
What is it forms at the edge of a glacier where till is deposited
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