Glaciers

Glaciers

What kind of ice shapes Earth?

Multiple Choice

What type of glacier forms in a mountainous area?

• Alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

Multiple Choice

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

• alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

Multiple Choice

A gigantic mass of moving ice

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

Multiple Choice

Which landscape feature was most likely formed by glacial activity?

• an eroded plateau

• a flat floodplain

• a U-shaped valley

• a V-shaped valley

Multiple Choice

Glaciers form when _____.

• less snow falls than melts 
• more snow falls than melts 
• less rain falls than freezes 
• more rain falls than freezes 

Multiple Choice

_____ are are lines deposited at bottom or along sides of glaciers.

• Eskers
• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines

Multiple Choice

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

• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines
• Fjords

Multiple Choice

_____ is the unsorted material that is deposited directly by ice.

• Outwash
• Till
• Erratic
• Esker

Multiple Choice

A _____ is a meandering narrow ridge formed when water, flowing in a tunnel underneath a melting glacier, deposited sediment

• erratic
• moraine
• esker
• fjords

Multiple Choice

Glaciers only form near Earth’s poles.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Glaciers often form V shaped valleys

• true
• false

Open Ended

One questions I still have on today's lesson is ...