Glacier Erosion and Deposition

The diagram below shows a glacial landscape feature forming over time from a melting block of ice. This glacial landscape feature is best identified as

• a kettle lake

• an outwash plain

• a finger lake

• a lateral moraine

The cross section below represents the transport of sediments by a glacier. At which location is deposition most likely the dominant process?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Unsorted, angular, rough-surfaced silt, sand, cobbles, and boulders are found at the base of a cliff. What most likely transported these cobbles and boulders?

• running water

• wind

• a glacier

• ocean currents

This glacial landscape feature is best identified as

• Kettle Lake

• Outwash Plain

• Terminal Moraine

• Cirque

If this glacier experiences more ablation than accumulation, than it would be

• accumulating

• advancing

• regressing

• retreating

What will be the most probable arrangement of rock particles deposited directly by a glacier?

• unsorted and layered

• unsorted and not layered

• sorted and not layered

• sorted and layered

When these 2 glaciers combine, the line of sediment created between them is known as a

• lateral moraine

• medial moraine

• terminal moraine

• recessional moraine

The ridge of sediments from X to Y can best be described as

• sorted and deposited by ice

• sorted and deposited by melt water

• unsorted and deposited by ice

• unsorted and deposited by meltwater

Which feature will most likely form when the partially buried ice block melts?

• drumlin

• morraine

• kettle lake

• finger lake

The elongated hills labeled R are most useful in determining the

• age of the glacier

• direction of movement of the glacier

• size of the glacier

• velocity of the glacier