Glaciers and Landscape Quiz

What is the process called when a glacier picks up material?

• Transportation

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Erosion

What is the term for the process where water seeps into the rock below a glacier and freezes, opening up cracks in the rock?

• Abrasion

• Plucking

• Freeze-thaw weathering

• Transportation

What is the name of the mixture of rocks, stones, sand, and clay left behind by a melting glacier?

• Erosion

• Glacial till

• Melt water

• Deposition

What is the term for the process where a glacier transports eroded material as it flows downhill?

• Transportation

• Plucking

• Abrasion

• Deposition

What is the name given to the melted ice from a glacier that turns into water and flows downhill?

• Glacial till

• Melt water

• Deposition

• Erosion

What is the term for the process where rocks and stones scrape along the glacier bed like sandpaper?

• Transportation

• Freeze-thaw weathering

• Abrasion

• Plucking

What is the name given to the material hidden inside or at the base of a glacier, where it can't be seen?

• Melt water

• Glacial till

• Erosion

• Deposition

What is the term for the process where rocks and stones fall to the ground as a glacier melts?

• Deposition

• Plucking

• Freeze-thaw weathering

• Abrasion