Glacial Erosion: Chapter 3

What are the two types of glaciers?

• Earth

• Continental

• Valley

• Mountain

Process where glaciers pick up rocks

• till

• plucking

• kettle

• moraine

forms when a depression left in till by melting ice fills with water

• arete

• cirque

• moraine

• kettle

which glacier is bigger?

• continental

• valley

this ridge is formed when till is deposited at the edges of a glacier

• kettle

• horn

• fjord

• moraine

what constantly pulls a galcier downhill

• gravity

• water

• mud

• metal

What happened during the ice ages

• all the ice on the land melted

• large areas of land were covered with ice

• all water on the earth froze, melted and refroze

• a meteor hit the earth

what color light escapes when the sun hits a glacier?

• red

• yellow

• blue

How do glaciers erode the land?

• abrasion

• deposition

• plucking

• runoff