What is a steep-sided mound of sand and gravel deposited by a melting ice sheet.
100
Mass Wasting
What is a type of erosion in which gravity pulls sediment from a higher point to a lower one
100
Topsoil
What is the uppermost layer of soil
100
GPS
What is a global positioning system
100
Till Plain
What is a prepared, cultivated land
200
Chemical Weathering
What is the erosion or disintegration of rocks, building materials, etc., caused by chemical reactions (chiefly with water and substances dissolved in it) rather than by mechanical processes.
200
Drumlin
What is a long mound of glacial drift that runs parallel to the path of the glaciers retreat
200
Pore Spaces
What is a network of holes that let air and water accumulate
200
GIS
What is geographic information system
200
Frost Wedging
What is liquid water seeps into cracks in a rock, freezes and when it freezes it expands and breaks the rock
300
Mechanical Weathering
What is the physical breakdown of rock by weathering agents such as wind water and ice
300
Outwash Plains
What is a glacial stream that eventually dries up and leaves behind a zone of stratified drift
300
Contour Interval
What is the difference in elevation between contour lines
300
Erratics
What is large boulders a glacier left behind
300
Constructive Force
What is a force that makes minerals, rocks, and landforms
400
Esker
What is a long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.
400
Ground Moraines
What is where a glacial dropped enough sediment to make broad plains of till
400
Contour Lines
What is a line that shows changes in elevation
400
Ground Moraine
What is a till plain
400
Destructive Force
What is a force that breaks down minerals, rocks, and landforms
500
Glacier
What is a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
500
Horizon
What is a layer of soil
500
Contour Maps
What is a map marked with contour lines. (topographical map)
500
Terminal Moraine
What is the moraine that marks the farthest advance of a glacier