Glaciers and Ice Ages Quiz

What is an ice age?

• A warm period in history

• A time with fewer glaciers

• A very cold period with many glaciers

• A time when dinosaurs lived

What is a glacier?

• A large river

• A large moving sheet of ice

• A frozen lake

• A snowstorm

True or False: Ice sheets covered much of the British Isles during the last ice age.

• True

• False

What type of environment is found near ice sheets during an ice age?

• Desert

• Tropical rainforest

• Tundra

• Savanna

What is an iceberg?

• A floating chunk of lava

• A floating piece of glacier ice

• A type of volcano

• A mountain

What is a crevasse in a glacier?

• A cave under the glacier

• A deep crack in the ice

• A mountain near the glacier

• A river made by melting

True or False: Glaciers can flow like rivers.

• True

• False

What do we call the end of a glacier?

• Head

• Snout

• Mouth

• Toe

What does erosion by a glacier mean?

• Melting snow

• Glaciers building land

• Glaciers breaking rock and wearing away land

• Rocks growing

What is meltwater?

• Ice on top of the glacier

• Rainwater near a glacier

• Water formed by melting glacier ice

• Steam from a volcano