Glacial Features

The diagram represents a stream valley. Which diagram below best shows how this valley might be modified after a glacier has moved through it?

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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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Icebergs form when a glacier flows into a body of water and cracks apart. This process is known as _____.

• drifting
• cracking
• calving
• crevassing

Large rocks or boulders that are transported by glaciers are called...

• Erratics

• Striations

• Morraine

• Abrasion

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What is this image representing?

• Abrasion

• Plucking

• Freeze Thaw

• Deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A _____ is a mass of ice that moves downhill due to its weight.

• glacier
• erratic
• fjiord
• moraine

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

_____ is one of the two types of glaciers.

• Valley
• Mountain
• Plain
• Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

_____ is the unsorted material that is deposited directly by ice.

• Outwash
• Till
• Erratic
• Esker

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

• Eskers
• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines

A _____ is a meandering narrow ridge formed when water, flowing in a tunnel underneath a melting glacier, deposited sediment

• erratic
• moraine
• esker
• fjords