Glaciers Vocabulary and Landforms

What are scratches or grooves worn into bedrock from abrasion at the bottom of a glacier.

• Plucking

• Striations

• Till

• Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is glacial drift that is organized by size.

• Sorted material

• Unsorted material

• Erratics

• Erosion

_______ is material that is carried away by wind, water, or ice.

• Deposition

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Excavation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

_____ is glacial drift taken away and dropped by meltwater in front of a glacier.

• Till

• Kame

• Unsorted material

• Outwash

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is sorted material deposited by glacial meltwater?

• Till

• Erratics

• Stratified Drift

• Erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

______ is when material is dropped by wind, water, or ice.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Excavation

_____ is any material picked up (weathered), carried away (eroded), or dropped off (deposited) by a glacier.

• Soil

• Erratic

• Plucking

• Drift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is glacial drift that is not organized by size.

• Sorted material

• Unsorted material

• Erratics

• Erosion

_____ is when the glacier’s weight causes layers of ice crystals to move over each other, allowing the glacier to spread outward.

• Basal Slip

• Plastic Flow

• Plucking

• Slumping

_____ is when material is broken down by wind, water, or ice.

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Excavation