Ice Age Review

What is a glacier?

• A large, moving sheet of ice

• A large mass of ice in the ocean

• A large piece of ice on the top of a mountain

What is an iceberg?

• A large, moving sheet of ice

• A large mass of ice in the ocean

• Ice on the mountain top

What do we call the area of Wisconsin that was not shaped by glaciers?

• Glaciated Area

• Glacierless Area

• Driftless Area

How did glaciers change the earth?

• They formed rivers and lakes

• They formed plateaus and plains

• They formed landforms like moraines, eskers, kames, and potholes

• All of the above

All of these animals were Ice Age animals except:

• wooly mammoths

• saber-tooth tigers

• giraffes

• mastodons

What do we call a scientist who studies layers of rock to learn about the past?

• Geographer

• Geologist

• Rock Hunter

• Paleontologist

Glaciers did all the following, EXCEPT:

• moved boulders, rocks, and soil to other places

• melted and came back over and over again

• cause huge fires

• formed the Great Lakes

What important lakes were formed by the glaciers?

• The Great Lakes

• Lake Monoma

• Land 'o Lakes

What is the name of this glacial landform?

• esker

• moraine

• kame

• pothole

• drumlin

What is the name of this glacial landform?

• kame

• kettle

• moraine

• pothole