Geology of Cape Cod

Name of the Ice Sheet that shaped Cape Cod and the Islands

• Greenland Ice Sheet

• Laurentide Ice Sheet

• Cordilleran Ice Sheet

• Georges Banks Glacier

Farthest point a Glacier has advanced

• Moraine

• Glacial Erratics

• Glacial Maximum

• Outwash Plain

Soil and Rock left behind by a moving glacier

• drumlin

• kames

• outwash plain

• moraine

Wisconsin Ice Age began around 100,000 years ago and ended around 11,000 years ago

• True

• False

Sea level has been consistent throughout the creation of Cape Cod; hasn't changed

• True

• False

Depressions made by ice left behind from receding glaciers

• kame

• drumlin

• glacial erratics

• kettle

mound of mostly sand and gravel deposited by a glacier

• kame

• moraine

• kettle

• drumlin

Glaciers are larger than Ice Sheets

• True

• False

What marks the glacial maximum of the Laurentide Ice Sheet?

• Cape Cod Canal

• Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket

• Cape Cod Bay

• Buzzards Bay

The ecosystem and habitat of Cape Cod has not changed much in the past 25,000 years

• True

• False