Glacier Review 2025

In which landscape region are New York State's Finger Lakes primarily located?

• Adirondack Mountains

• Allegheny Plateau

• Atlantic Coastal Plain

• Erie-Ontario Lowlands

The accompanying diagram shows rock material being transported by a mountain glacier. The moraine deposits left when this glacier melts will generally be

• sorted by size and layered

• sorted by size and unlayered

• unsorted by size and layered

• unsorted by size and unlayered

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Base your answers to the following questions on the diagram below, which shows the edge of a continental glacier that is receding. R indicates elongated hills. The ridge of sediments from X to Y represents a landscape feature.

Which feature will most likely form when the partially buried ice block melts?

• drumlin

• moraine

• kettle lake

• finger lake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

(a)   is responsible for the formation of glacial outwash plains.

• volcanic eruptions
• river flooding
• meltwater from glaciers
• earthquakes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The diagrams below show the extent of glacial ice in New York State at different times during the last ice age. Which conclusion is best supported by these diagrams?

• Glacial ice covered the entire state for the entire ice age

• The amount of glacial ice in New York State changed over time

• Glacial ice formed only in the northern part of New York State

• Glacial ice melted rapidly throughout the state

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The diagram below shows a glacial landscape feature forming over time from a melting block of ice. This glacial landscape feature is best identified as a (a)   .

• a kettle lake
• an outwash plain
• a finger lake
• a moraine

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The cross sections below show a three-stage sequence in the development of a glacial feature.

Which glacial feature has formed by the end of stage 3?

• kettle lake

• finger lake

• drumlin

• parallel scratches

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Over which two landscape regions do the streams in watershed D flow?

MAKE SURE TO SELECT TWO

• Tug Hill Plateau

• Catskills

• Adirondack Mountains

• St. Lawrence Lowlands

Which change is most likely to occur in a landscape if its climate changes from humid to arid?

• Wind will become a more important agent of erosion.

• Surface features will become more rounded.

• Chemical weathering will increase.

• Vegetation will increase.

New York State’s Finger Lakes exist today because

• U-shaped valleys were dammed by glacial sediments

• V-shaped valleys are being eroded by streams

• a drop in sea level occurred, leaving the lakes

• a rise in sea level occurred, flooding the region

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2