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Types of Glaciers
Glacial Movement
Regents Questions
100
A glacier moves as a _______ rather than a liquid.
What is a solid
100
Unsorted sediment deposited by a glacier
What is till
100
This is the fastest moving type of glacier
What is a valley glacier
100
Average rate of movement for continental glaciers
few mm/day or few cm/day
100
What conditions will the cause the front of a glacier to retreat? (Be sure to use the words melting and accumulation in your answer)
When melting is greater than accumulation.
200
The largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth
What is glacier ice
200
Glacial hills that are shaped like the back of a spoon
What is a drumlin
200
Another word for Valley Glaciers
What is Alpine Glacier
200
What caused the last continental glacier to stop advancing southward.
Warm temperatures from a lower latitude.
300
Glaciers are masses of ice that flow under the influence of _____.
What is gravity
300
Caused by friction at sides and bottom of ice mass and by warming during the summer months
What is melting
300
These types of glaciers were over Brockport about 11,000 years ago
What is a continental glacier
300

Visual: What are rocks called that are not typical for an area and were left behind by glacial movement?

What are glacial erratics?

300
What is the difference between a residual and transported soil?
A residual soil (resident) formed where it is found. A transported soil was moved there by an agent of erosion (wind, water, glacier)
400
Glaciers cover how much of the Earth's land surface? (percentage, +- 10%)
What is 10%
400
Forms when a chunk of glacier is partially buried and when it melts forms a small lake or pond.
What are kettle lakes or kettle holes
400

What do we call the rock deposited by receded glaciers that block the flow of water?

What are moraines?

400
The speed of glacial movement is partly determined by _______.
What is slope or friction
400

Because of glaciation, Wisconsin presently has soils that are best described as

What are outwash soils?

500
About how much of the world's water do glaciers contain? (percentage, +- 10%)
What is 2.15%
500
Rocks that do not match the size and type of other rocks in the same area
What is an erratic
500
name the main difference between valley glaciers and continental glaciers.
Valley glaciers are formed at high altitudes (EX. mountains) and continental glaciers are formed at high latitudes (EX. Greenland)
500

What geologic time period were the glaciers last over parts of Wisconsin

What is Pleistocene?

500

Chamberlain Rock (an erratic) was found on the UW Madison campus in 1925. How did the boulder get there?

It was transported by a glacier