Ice Age and Glaciation Quiz

What is a glacier?

• A frozen river

• A large, slow-moving mass of ice

• A snowstorm

• A mountain peak

Where do glaciers usually form?

• In deserts

• On coastlines

• In high mountains and polar regions

• In forests

What is the Zone of Accumulation?

• Where the glacier melts

• Where rocks are deposited

• Where snow builds up and turns to ice

• Where rivers form

What is the Zone of Ablation?

• Where glaciers grow

• Where snow falls

• Where the glacier moves fastest

• Where the glacier melts and loses ice

How does glacial plucking work?

• Snow melts and flows away

• Ice scratches the land

• Rocks are pulled out as ice sticks and moves

• Water evaporates

What is abrasion?

• Melting of snow

• Rocks scraping against valley walls like sandpaper

• Ice freezing water

• Water flowing beneath the glacier

What shape do glaciers carve valleys into?

• V-shape

• S-shape

• U-shape

• Flat plain

Which landform forms when two corries erode back-to-back?

• Hanging valley

• Pyramidal peak

• Truncated spur

• Arete

Which landform is a narrow ridge between two corries?

• Moraine

• Tarn

• Arete

• Peak

What is a corrie?

• A flat plain

• A deep crack

• A bowl-shaped hollow on a mountain

• A hanging glacier