ESS Erosion by Glacier

The photograph shows both erosional and depositional features formed by an agent of erosion. Which agent of erosion produced the features shown in the photograph?

• running water

• glacial ice

• ocean waves

• prevailing wind

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A sharp, pyramid shaped peak formed by glacial erosion

• Horn

• Arete

• Cirque

• Erratic

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Identify the landform in the picture created by a glacier.

• arete

• cirque

• kettle lake

• moraine

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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

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Identify the glacial landform the man is standing on.

• Ice field

• Ablation zone

• Moraine

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This image is an example of a...

• Glacial valley

• Fjord

• Drumlin

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Poorly graded (unsorted) rock material deposited directly by a glacier.

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• Glacial till

• glacier

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When a glacier is experiencing more melting than snow accumulation it is said to be in a period of _____.

• glacial drift

• shrinking glacier

• growing glacier

• glacial outburst

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What type of glacier forms in a mountainous area?

• Alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

What type of glacier forms over large, flat, land masses and is shaped like a dome?

• an iceburg
• a crevasse
• a continental glacier
• an alpine glacier