GLACIER QUIZ

Glaciers move because of

• Weathering

• Gravity

• Tumbling

• Salting

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What type of glacier forms in a mountainous area?

• Alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

• alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

A glacier is __________

• series of frozen lakes that line up parallel to one another 
• series of frozen seas that rest in the interior of continents 
• o  large body of ice that does not move across the earth's surface 
• large body of ice and snow that shows evidence of movement 

Ice sheets once covered the upper northeastern portion of the United States.

• True
• False

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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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All of the following were formed by glaciers EXCEPT _____.

• Long Island
• Niagra Falls
• Great Lakes
• Grand Canyon

What type of glacier forms over large, flat, land masses and is shaped like a dome?

• an iceburg
• a crevasse
• a continental glacier
• an alpine glacier

What letter of the alphabet does a glacial valley most closely resemble?

• U
• V
• W
• X

_____ are parallel scratch marks on bedrock

• Plucking
• Abrasion
• Straitions
• Till

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