Glaciers

What type of glacier forms in a mountainous area?

• Alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

A gigantic mass of moving ice

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

• alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

unsorted rock material deposited directly by ice as it melts

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

unsorted rock material (large and small rocks) deposited directly by a glacier as it melts

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

What glacial features are indicated by the labels C and D on the figure?

• moraines
• outwash plains
• kettle lakes
• ice sheets

_____ are parallel scratch marks on bedrock

• Plucking
• Abrasion
• Straitions
• Till

_____ are are lines deposited at bottom or along sides of glaciers.

• Eskers
• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines

_____ are enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers, often far from their source region.

• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines
• Fjords

Glaciers form when _____.

• less snow falls than melts 
• more snow falls than melts 
• less rain falls than freezes 
• more rain falls than freezes