Glacial

Glaciers form...

• by build-up of ice over many years

• by pieces of ice breaking off of a Mountain

• by water freezing into a block of ice

• by it snowing really hard for days at a time

Where are Alpine glaciers found?

• Below The Snow-line

• Frozen To Mountains

• In Mountain Valleys

• Near Kettle Lakes

Plucking is rock and other pieces of rock being carved away by a glacier and then carried away by pieces of flowing ice.

• true

• false

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Particles of rock that are deposited by a glacier is

• (an) Iceberg

• glacial till

• (a) moraine

Which of the following is a Kettle Lake?

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Abrasion is...

• the destruction of plant life due to a glacier

• another term for plucking

• when the glacier melts into carved out pieces of land and creates a lake

• boulders and rocks scraping away at lower rock like a file

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Glacial Striations are another name for glacial grooves

• False

• True