Glacier Unit Review

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A gigantic mass of moving ice

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glacier

Front

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

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continental

Front

unsorted sediments (large and small rocks) deposited directly by a glacier as it melts

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till

Front

What are jagged ridges that form on mountains called?

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aretes

Front

Glaciers form when _____: less snow falls than melts, more snow falls than melts, less rain falls than freezes, more rain falls than freezes.

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more snow falls than melts

Front

_____ are parallel scratch marks on bedrock

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Straitions

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_____ are hills of unsorted sediments deposited at the leading edge of glaciers.

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Terminal Moraines

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_____ are hills of unsorted sediments deposited at the SIDES of glaciers.

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Lateral Moraines

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_____ are enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers, often far from their source region.

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Erratics

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_____ are depressions formed as stranded ice blocks are covered with sediments as a glacier retreats. Later the ice block melts to create this land form.

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kettle lakes