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Moving and forming
Erosion
Deposition
Test prep
100
A mixture of sediments that a glacier deposits directly in the surface.
What is till?
100
A glacier that covers much of a continent or large island and spreads out in all directions.
What is a continental glacier?
100
A process where the weight of the ice can break rocks apart and picks the rocks up.
What is plucking?
100
This process creates landforms by depositing.
What is glacial deposition?
100
Name 5 land forms created by glaciers.
What is a moraine, terminal moraine, a kettle or a kettle lake, a U-shaped valley, a horn, a drumlin, a fiord, a glacial lake, a cirque, and an arete?
200
A period of time when continental glaciers cover a large portion of Earth's surface.
What is ice age?
200
A glacier that moves in large surges.
What is a valley glacier?
200
The process when a glacier drags rocks across the land making gouges and scratches in the bedrock.
What is abrasion?
200
This happens to a glacier when it enters a warm climate, depositing till.
What is a melting glacier?
200
The time when the last ice age ended.
What is 10000 years ago?
300
A bowl-shaped hollow eroded by a glacier.
What is cirque?
300
The depth of snow and ice that forces gravity to pull a glacier downhill.
What is 30-40 meters?
300
The land form a glacier shapes after freezing a V-shaped valley.
What is a U-shaped valley?
300
Long Island, New York, is an example of this specific land feature.
What is a terminal moraine?
300
The amount of processes that glaciers use to erode.
What is two?
400
A long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up in a high mountain valley.
What is a valley glacier?
400
Where temperatures rarely rise above freezing.
What is a high mountain valley?
400
A depression left in till by melting ice filled with water.
What is a kettle lake?
400
These lakes are commonly found in Minnesota where the land that was covered in ice.
What is a kettle lake?
400
The land form that can flow as much as 6 kilometers a year.
What is a surging valley glacier?
500
A long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow.
What is a drumlin?
500
The two large landmasses covered by glaciers.
What is Antarctica and Greenland?
500
The process in which a valley glacier turns a mountain peak into a horn and a V-shaped valley into a U-shaped valley.
What is glaciation?
500
The 5 elements that till contains.
What is clay, silt, sand, gravel, and boulders?
500
The land feature that falls off of a glacier along the coastline.
What is an iceberg?